1. Bestow upon your head, O Fate!
Chains and fetters and shackles

2. Bestow upon your head, O Fate!
Layers upon layers

3. Step after step
Where is a face that seems

4. To lack soul and orifice?
Where is a head that seems

5. To have emerged from suffering?
Where is a snout that seems

6. As if, from beneath it, burst pus?
Where are distant eyes

7. Languid and bleary?
Over them, coarse eyebrows—

8. Distant, made of twine.
O epitome of ugliness, devoid

9. Of beauty, charm and delight!
All hideousness combined

10. In you—loathsome, repugnant!
You have a face that melts with

11. Hatred and disgust.
At its likes, no eyelid brightens

12. When it quivers.
Ugliness fully ripened in you

13. Was never thus ripened by Fate.
O questioner! At daybreak

14. Dawn shone bright. Have no fear!
He is like the sea—so describe him

15. To people. Feel no unease!
He is whatever you wish

16. Of insanity, folly and delirium.
When he jests with someone,

17. He freezes the soul or numbs it.
O people! Woe unto you!

18. Seek him out, whoever perished!
Coolheaded, though wits for him

19. Seethe and boil.
He entertains his companion

20. With an obscenity that excites him.
His obscenities suffice him—

21. Flavors that sever intimacy.
Blessed is he whose penis, if it

22. Slid into his anus, would crumble!
His rectum requires of his member

23. Just what it requires, with sweetness.
So he calls out to his member:

24. “May God have mercy on him who yielded!”
When a cunt is presented to him,

25. He rejoices and is glad.
When it excites him, he mutters lyrics

26. To which the wanton dance.
He desires a firm penis

27. With no curvature in its shaft.
He is patient with it if

28. Its passage strains or is rough.
It writhes to exit him

29. Like ice when it melts.
Witness his body that bore

30. Flesh and contorted itself!
Cauteries cured him

31. And then burst open.
By God! From their foods

32. Are plagues in his gut—whatever plagues!
Whoever among you is in some respect

33. As we have described—he is damned and perished!