TIMBUKTU

The National Poetry Contest had come down to two semifinalists.

A Yale graduate and a Pollock from Buffalo.

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 Pollock top that, they thought.

The Pollock 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 Pollock won, hands down!

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