THE NATIONAL POETRY CONTEST HAD COME DOWN TO
2 SEMI-FINALISTS:

A YALE GRADUATE AND A REDNECK.

THEY WERE GIVEN A SINGLE WORD, THEN ALLOWED TWO MINUTES TO COME

UP WITH A POEM THAT CONTAINED THE WORD

"TIMBUKTU."



FIRST TO RECITE HIS POEM WAS THE YALE GRADUATE .

HE STEPPED UP 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.



THE REDNECK WON HANDS DOWN