1. The wife who was once obedient to her husband
Became thereafter like an ape with mange on its shoulder

2. She dodged the cattle prods with her hands while her eyes
Were like those of a one-eyed camel missing its mark

3. We returned her to her tribe's lord, whereupon she was
Counted among the widowed women

4. A disheveled young man whose breath smelled foul
Thereafter became like a scraggly weakling

5. His summers and winters worried the clan
So they said, "Step forth amidst the feet!"

6. He tucked in his slippers and tore his cloak
And said, "Are not people the sons of mares?"

7. I slipped beneath the fray with a drawn sword
That hovered over the humps of the sandals

8. As if the elegy of the Juthamis amongst them
Were bereavements that gathered wailing with keening

9. The day after the fight, we were as if
We were stormy clouds of Mudar beneath wind and rain

10. We shot arrows at them until their matter was chaotic
And limpness returned to the penis

11. We subjugated them with the Mašrafi swords and laid bare
The notches of the swords rising over the skulls