The National Poetry Contest had come down to two semi-finalists, a Yale graduate and a redneck from Arkansas . They were given a word, then allowed two minutes to study the word a 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 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!