1. لَعَنَ اللَهُ جُرجُسَ القُنياطا

    وَسَقى قَبرَهُ خَرىً وَضُراطا

    May God curse Jurjus al-Qunyata,

    and water his grave with shit and farts!

  2. قُلتُ يَوماً لِدافِنيهِ أَجيبوا

    بِجَوابٍ يَزيدُ قَلبي اِغتِباطا

    One day I said to his buriers, “Answer me

    with an answer that increases my heart's delight:

  3. حينَ وَارَيتُموهُ في لَعنَةِ اللَ

    هِ وَأَلقَيتُمُ عَلَيهِ البَلاطا

    when you buried him in God's curse

    and laid the paving stones upon him,

  4. ما صَنَعتُم بِقَرنِهِ قالَ لي القَو

    مُ اِستَمِع لا رَأَت عُلاكَ اِنحِطاطا

    what did you do with his horn?” The people told me,

    “Listen—may your eminence never know decline:

  5. أَصلُهُ في الثَرى مُقيمٌ وَلَكِن

    فَرعُهُ صارَ لِلثُرَيّا مَناطا

    Its root remains in the earth, but

    its branch is now where the Pleiades hang.

  6. فَلَقَد نالَ عِرسَهُ كُلُّ زانٍ

    وَاِبنَهُ كُلُّ مَن أَحَبَّ اللِّواطا

    For every fornicator has had his wife,

    and everyone who loves sodomy has had his son.

  7. نَحَتَتهُ الرِجالُ نَحتَ أَبيهِ

    صَخرَةً وَهوَ كَالفَنيقِ نَشاطا

    Men carved him as his father carved

    a rock, while he was as vigorous as a pampered camel,

  8. حينَ لَم يَنحَدِب وَلَم يَكُ إِلّا

    كَالقَضيبِ الرَطيبِ يَبدو شِطاطا

    when he was not stooped and was simply

    like a fresh bough, appearing tall and straight.

  9. وَاِبنُهُ لا يَزيدُ بِالنَحتِ إِلّا

    ثِقَلاً فيهِ مُفرِطاً إِفراطا

    And his son gains through such carving only

    an utterly excessive heaviness within him.”

  10. يا يوحَنّا يا اِبنَ الَّتي بَظرُها جَذ

    عٌ وَيَحكي قَوامُها مِخباطا

    O Yuhanna, O son of her whose clitoris is a tree trunk,

    and whose figure resembles a beating-stick!

  11. لِاِستِها لِحيَةٌ كَلِحيَةِ قِسٍّ

    وَقَفاها ثَطٌّ يَبينُ سُناطا

    Her arse has a beard like a priest's beard,

    and her nape is scant-haired, plainly beardless.

  12. فَهيَ أَبغى مِن قِطَّةٍ وَتَرى كل

    لَ زَمانٍ يَأتي عَلَيها شُباطا

    For she is more wanton than a she-cat, and sees every

    season that comes upon her as February.

  13. طالَما أَنبَطَ الزُناةُ بِأَمخا

    لِ الخصا ماءَ رَحمِها إِنباطا

    How often fornicators have drawn forth, with the shafts

    of their balls, the water of her womb!

  14. طالَما أَسخَطَت أَباكَ بِأَن نِي

    كَت لَدَيهِ تَبَرُّعاً إِسخاطا

    How often she enraged your father by being fucked

    in his presence, for free—enraging him utterly!

  15. طالَما زاحَمَت خَلاخيلُها في

    جُحرِهِ عِندَ نَيكِها الأَقراطا

    How often her anklets jostled, inside

    his burrow as she was fucked, against her earrings!

  16. تَدَّعي الطِبَّ مُر حِرِمِّكَ لَو كُن

    تَ تُضاهي في عَصرِنا بقِراطا

    You claim medical skill—give orders to your mother's cunt, even if you

    rivaled Hippocrates in our age!

  17. يا خَراءَ اليَهودِ في يَومِ سَبتٍ

    خَلَطوا فيهِ قَيئَهُم وَالمُخاطا

    O shit of the Jews on a Sabbath day,

    into which they mixed their vomit and snot!

  18. بَل خَراءُ الرُهبانِ لَمّا تَعَشّوا

    عَدَساً كاَن فَتُّهُ بَقسُماطا

    Rather, the monks' shit, after they dined

    on lentils with rusks crumbled into them!

  19. لَستَ مِمَّن أَمسى يُرَوِّقُ خَمراً

    لِنَديمٍ وَلا يَمُدُّ سِماطا

    You are not one who strains wine at evening

    for a drinking companion, nor do you lay out a feast.

  20. لا وَلا أَنتَ مِن نَصارى كِرامٍ

    لَيسَ يَطوونَ عَن نَديمِ بِساطا

    No, nor are you among those generous Christians

    who never fold their carpet away from a drinking companion.