Lives of the Saints in Verse

Serge Vincent, Proto-beat

Making his debut in 1920,

          S. Vincent spent that decade

          wearing little sailor suits.

He lived the next ten years on freight trains and boats,

          writing what would become (posthumously)

          The Marsupial and Other Verse.

Died on the beach at Anzio,

          Struck on the head by a mortar

          shell that did not trigger.