Collaborators

This show lists thirteen writers
For each single episode.

It would be fun if things were
That linearly related—

More creators, better show.
Sadly, not all creators

Contribute equally.
Sadly? Not all creators

Can handle co-creation.
For them there are religions

Requiring only one god.
It's curious, however,

That with both gods and stories,
One, two, or three creators

Predominate at one end,
Then it jumps straight to dozens.
 

It’s true of scientific
Peer-reviewed research as well—

One, two, or three authors, then
An explosion, scores of them.

There’s some kind of law, somehow,
Operating in the brain.

It may have nothing to do
With quality of output,

But the sociality
Of creators

Who have to work together
To make anything happen.