Nobody told me.
Nobody said a thing.
No one thought to give me word
that Tom Lehrer
greatest satirical songwriter of his generation
and many others to come
was gone.
Dead.
D E A D
like a door noodle.

Tom Lehrer died
and nobody saw fit to tell me?
I was his biggest fan!
Well
widest fan
maybe.
But I cared
and, dammit,
someone should have seen fit to inform me.
I deserved to know.

I love him
from a distance.
His songs were great.
I sang “Pollution” and “Be Prepared”
in grade school
and my first fanzine?
Named after one of his math songs.

I should’ve known.
I would’ve done something.

What?
He’s alive?
Thank GOD!
But… retired?
Well, fuck him then.