Ode to Terry Southern

You had immense fun and joy

poking holes of laughter into

Eisenhower deadly sleepwalk. 

Blindsided by backlash of no

alternative besides Nillson nihilism,

you fell by the roadside like

so many good intentions.

What you wrote as a joke is now

absurdly commonplace.

You can't out parody self parody

taken as the truth.

Your end was an end of a road.