Redneck Poet
The National Poetry Contest had come down
to the last two, a Yale graduate and a redneck from Texas.
They were given a word, then they were allowed two minutes
to study the word and come up with a poem that contained
the word. The word that 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.
The redneck won hands down!
