وَمُستَطيلٍ مِن بَني الكُتّابِ

قَد ضَلَّ عَن مَسالِكِ الآدابِ

A pretentious writer whose ways are corrupt,

Though proud of his work, to good manners abrupt;

وَهوَ عَلى ما فيهِ مِن إِعجابِ

أَشَدُّ تَطفيلاً مِنَ الذُبابِ

More bothersome he than a fly in one's soup,

This pest of a man with his self-granted troupe.