A translation of Ezra Pound's "The Temperaments"

9 times I have fucked your wife, 12 times for lying, 64 times like an animal
and possibly 1 rape
in the garden,
which made me really tired,
so I rested on a bed of newly cut flowers until noon.

Now I hear news that a man is coming
who is always quiet,
because he has no blood or genitalia or manners.
And that a second man, The Bastard,
is writing and talking about nothing
except for fucking
his newfound twins.

This was a great accomplishment but costly.
Four times he was caught with his cock in a hold. 

-Rudy