,
Life smacks but tastelessly
Lacking your salt!
Stuck in a bog whence naught
May catapult me,
Come from the grave, long-sought,
Come and insult me!

WE knew that sugared stuff
Poisoned the other;
Rough as the wind is rough,
Sister and brother!
Breathing the ether clear
Others forlorn have found --
Oh, for that peace austere
She and her scorn have found!

Biographical Note:

Stephen Vincent Bene't (22 July 1898 - 13 March 1943) was from a family
with roots in Florida, which explains the Spanish name. Although born
in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, his father was a colonel in the U.S. Army,
and hence he grew up in California and Georgia. He attended Yale
starting in 1915 and that same year published his first book of poems,
`Five Men and Pompey'. `Young Adventure' (1918) is considered his first
mature book of poetry, and he went on to win two Pulitzer Prizes, in
1929 for `John Brown's Body' and in 1944 for `Western Star'.

It appears that the whole family had great talents, as his grandfather
was a Brigadier General, his father a Colonel, and both Stephen and his
brother William Rose Benet won Pulitzer Prizes for poetry.

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