Timbuktu
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Loading ...A nationwide poetry contest was being held for college students. It was down to the two finalists: a sharp female english student at Harvard, and a redneck from Alabama State. The judges gave the finalists the same word, and they had to make an impromptu poem out of that word. The audience’s favorite poem would win the contest.
The Harvard english student was picked to go first, and the word was “Timbuktu.” So she thought for a couple minutes, got up to the podium, and started her poem.
Far away in a distant land,
They strolled across the desert sand.
Walking along two by two,
Destination—Timbuktu.
Wow! The audience applauded loudly; this was going to be a hard poem to beat.
The judges brought out the redneck from Alabama, and they gave him the same word. He took a couple of minutes to think, and then he stood up to give his poem. It went like this:
Tim and I, a-huntin’ we went
When we fell upon sum womun, in a tent!
They be three, and we be two,
So I’s bucked one, and Tim-bucked-tu!