Al-Farazdaq asked ‘Umar ibn Yazid al-Usaydi to send him some khat kind of horse fodder, and what he received was not to his standard. On meeting him again, the poet said (meter: basīṭ):
Attention, ‘Umar ibn Yazid! I'm a guy who[se poetry]
cauterizes madmen on their occiputs.
May the rustling crop of your garden plots
blossom with donkey dicks!
May each engorged prick rearing up from the soil
be bound [into sheaves of dicks]!
From Muhammad ibn Habib's commentary
on the Collected Poems of al-Farazdaq
