rígido un bachiller, otro severo
(crítica turba al fin, si no pigmea)
su diente afila y su veneno emplea
en el disforme cíclope cabrero.

A pesar del lucero de su frente,
le hacen oscuro, y él en dos razones,
que en dos truenos libró de su Occidente:

"Si quieren", respondió, "los pedantones
luz nueva en hemisferio diferente,
den su memorïal a mis calzones".

one scholar stiff, another more severe
(a mob of critics, if not pygmies) stormed,
their teeth all sharpened and their venom used
against the cyclops goatherd so deformed.

In spite of his forehead's one shimmering orb,
they blackened him; then he let loose two words --
two bolts from where the sun has never shined:

"If pedants," he responded, "really want
a new light from another hemisphere,
let them file their complaints with my behind."

                     (©Alix Ingber, 1995)