SURPRISE, SURPRISE

Nizam the pederast, whose delight in boys

Was known throughout Bagdad, one afternoon

In a secluded place saw in a clearing

The flash of limbs behind a nearby bush,

And looking closer came upon a youth

Who seemed more lovely than his dreams had

promised,

Lying asleep in shade, his head pressed deep

Into crossed arms, his long slim body

Quite naked, the firm buttocks firmly offered.

Quick as a jackal pouncing, Nizam jumped

Upon the lad, his robe about his waist,

The startled boy pierced by his lusty cock

Before you could say knife. Not until later,

When boy lay panting on the flattened grass,

Did Nizam, pausing to embrace his love,

Discover him a her, surprised but pleased

at being given such a pleasure at a source

No previous lover seemed to know about.

Nizam converted ? Never. But the girl

Now gives her lovers strange instruction.

Anon. (9th Century Arabic)

(drawing - Mike Sparrow)