No One Wants to Know the Lone

The communal, the collaborative,
The collective, the group that gets
Things done, that gets grants,

Forms movements, publishes,
Organizes, produces generations
Of further communal groupings,

So that scholars write books
About this or that school, movement,
Revolutionary organization,

Golden age of collaboration,
Sometimes just a group of bright friends—
The solitary reader thinks on these

And grumbles. But I had something.
But not plural. But the world’s alone.