Tommy (King poem)

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"Tommy"
Short story by Stephen King
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	memento mori, confessional poetry
Publication
Published in	Playboy, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Publication type	poem
Publisher	Playboy, Charles Scribner's Sons
Media type	Print
Publication date	March, 2010
Chronology
Mister Yummy   The Little Green God of Agony

"Tommy" is a narrative poem by Stephen King, first published in the March, 2010 edition of Playboy,^[1] and later collected and re-introduced in the November 3, 2015 anthology The Bazaar of Bad Dreams.^[2] In the new introduction King disputes the famous adage (attributed to many celebrities, including Grace Slick, Robin Williams, Paul Kantner, Joan Collins, and Dennis Hopper): "If you remember the Sixties, you weren't there."

The poem is free verse and steeped in the slang and cultural references of the 1960s, a decade which encompassed all of King's teenage years. It describes the unique burial of the titular young man, a hippie who died of leukaemia, and the subsequent lives of his closest friends.

• Stephen King short fiction bibliography

• Tommy title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database