...jeff, you're after something here and you reached it in a few verses...West Side Story had this Jett guy named Action--he was always "ready" and yet is told: 'easy Action'...i think of him/you/me/whomever...easy, easy...that way they're fooled, eh?

Never let them see they are getting to you...a difficult and time-consuming trick to master -but a most worthwhile one -for your sake as well as anyone else in the vicinity, literally and metaphorically.