Timbuktu

The National Poetry Contest had come down to two semi-finalists a Yale graduate and a redneck from Alabama. They were given a word and two minutes to come up with a poem that included the word. The word they were given was Timbuktu. The first to recite his poem was the Yale graduate. Into the microphone he read:

Slowly across the desert sands Trekked a lonely caravan. Men on camels, two by two destination Timbuktu.

The crowd cheered. No way the Alabama redneck could top that they thought. The redneck approached the microphone, cleared his throat 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