1. It is a disgrace upon me, the worst disgrace
And a scarf, uglier with it than scarves

2. Your insults to my poetry and defilement
Of the irrigation of my poetry with vileness

3. Yet the noble and the free may be
Afflicted without nobility or freemen

4. O wicked carpenter, o son of Abu Hammad
Emulating the wickedness of the carpenter

5. Attacking me suddenly in ignorance
Like the bedbugs' rush towards fire

6. And assaulting my satire as the
Donkey witnessed the lion's assault

7. Exposing the cultural pretensions
As some foxes expose each other's burrows

8. O small to the people even if
To them you are among the big

9. And despicable, amounting not to
Any value or worth

10. Partaking with the merchants, and if
People examine the merchandise of merchants

11. A beard like the hair of a billy-goat, not resembling
In its scrub the beards of the righteous

12. Then a face, we compared monkeys to it
And found the monkeys like moons

13. In blackness and yellowness, which called people
To call him bitter garlic

14. That is a disease, and the disease of mange
Has no cure but with the veterinarian