Number 20

Iraqi style
English

Number 20

Last night I swore I'd give up love, since the time to leave this world had come. Then I took back that vow, because the memory of that heart stealing lover came to me. The moment his name and his backside crossed my tongue, my cock's mouth began to water.
Explanation: The poem is deliberately bawdy and satirical, playing off the pious language of repentance against blunt sexual desire.

Original · Persian

شمارهٔ ۲۰

دوش گفتم ز عشق توبه کنم که گَه ِ رفتن از جهان آمد
‌توبه کردم ازین سخن، که مرا ‌یاد آن یار دل‌ستان آمد
‌بر زبان نام کون او بردم ‌کیر را آب بر دهان آمد