1. تزوَّجَ الشيخُ أبي زوجةً

    ليس لها عقلٌ ولا ذهنُ

    My father, the old man, took a wife.

    She has neither reason nor wit.

  2. لو برزت صُورَتها في الدُّجَى

    ما جَسُرَت تبصُرها الجنُّ

    Were her form to appear in the darkness,

    The jinn would not dare look at her.

  3. كأنَّها في فرشها رمَّةٌ

    وشعرها من حَولَها قُطنُ

    She is like a decaying corpse in her bedding,

    And her hair is cotton all around her.

  4. وقاتلٍ قل لي ماسِنُّها

    فقلتُ ما في فمها سِنُّ

    And a killer said, “Tell me, how old is she?”

    So I said, “There is not a tooth in her mouth.”