(Translator's note: When this seemingly anachronistic reference to Samurai Jack was found, it was feared by scholars that the whole codex might be a forgery. It was then recalled that the samurai was sent from the past, and through that information the problem was solved. The poem was likely written while the brush with the samurai was still fresh in Aku's mind, and possibly to comfort himself, he commissioned this poem. The poet was likely not paid very well, and perhaps even forced under torture to compose the work; every effort has been made by the translator to imitate the original author's informal and, some might say, desperate wording. The name Jack, written "Iiaeaccewulf" in the original, was as common a name then as it is now, and was likely used to imply an "Average Joe" rather than out of any expectation that the samurai would really be going by that name.)
Lo! Let our lot now learn and look upon
This finest fable featuring fierce Aku.
Herein he holds the power hard in hand
to kill with skill, and ill with thrill of ill will,
and will fulfil, I swear upon my quill,
a swift and sudden snuff and still of
some certain Samurai. So sall it be. See?
He, our lord and hero, Aku as he hails,
will wander forth from watching unwitting
Jack, the Samurai, and attack that Jack,
and will win for sure, when warring the foe,
'cause Aku's got fire breath and cool shit.
And then that fiend, (that's Jack, not Aku,)
deftly once dead shall be put on display,
so we'll watch him rot and wither away,
and that should shend a meshage for shertain.
Hail Aku!