1. Invisible bugs I haven't forgotten
Nor what they sucked of my blood

2. Their tubes pierce my socks
And penetrate flesh, bone and marrow

3. When summer left I used to get cupped
But when autumn came I did not refrain

4. They welcome a guest over the road
At the clinic door and on the stairs

5. Spreading from swarm to swarm
As sesame seeds are strewn on the ground

6. They dance the dancers' mourning dance
On skin and the sallow gland

7. Harbingers appear before winter
And raise the banners of the season

8. When Avicenna threw a drug
You'd see the bugs in the drug

9. And you see them around the boss's mouth
In his moustache and around his lips

10. And between the crevices of his teeth
With the maggots seeking food