Head Cases, All of Us
Let's workshop this poem about the paradoxical psychological maneuvers people are prone to make to conceal their motivations from others and even themselves.
Head Cases, All of Us To hide even from himself that the wellspring of his visions is thirst for social capital, he gravitates toward visions that ostracize him—ones he whispers would lift his capital were the world wiser (as he trusts they will one day, among at least a worthy minority).