The National Poetry Contest had come down to two, a
Yale graduate and a redneck from Mississippi. They were given a word, then allowed two minutes to study the word and come
up with a poem that contained the word. The word they were given was "Timbuktu."
First to recite his poem was the Yale graduate. He stepped
to the microphone and said:
Slowly across the desert sand
Trekked a lonely caravan;
Men
on camels, two by two
Destination Timbuktu.
The crowd went crazy! No way could the redneck top that,
they thought. The redneck calmly made his way to the microphone and recited:
Me and Tim a huntin’ went.
Met three whores
in a pop up tent.
They was three, and we was two
So I bucked one, and Timbuktu.