Subject: Timbuktu - Hunting Poem
The National Poetry Contest had come down to 2 semi-finalists... a
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> Yale graduate and a redneck from Tennessee. They were given a word, then
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> allowed 2 minutes to study and come up with a poem that contained the
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> The word they were given was "Timbuktu."
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> First to recite his poem was the Yale graduate. He stepped up to the
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> microphone and recited...
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> Slowly across the sand
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> Trekked a lonely caravan
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> Men on camels, two by two
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> Destination -- Timbuktu
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> The crowd went crazy! No way could the redneck top that, they
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> The redneck calmly made his way to the microphone and said...
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> Me and Tim a huntin went
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> Met three whores in a pop-up tent
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> They was three, and we was two
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> So I bucked one, and Timbuktu
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> The redneck won - hands down!