Finals of National poetry had arrived. 2 contestants were left, one from Harvard University, one a redneck from Dimville, Texas.
RUles stated that each was to compose a 4-line poem in one minute or less - the catch? The poem had to use the word "Timbuktu"
Harvard Man went first. 30 seconds after the clock started he got up and recited his poem.
Slowly across the desert sand
Trekked the dusty caravan.
Men on camels, two by two
Destination -- Timbuktu.
The audience went Crazy. How, they wondered could the redneck could top that?
The clock started again and the redneck sat in silent thought.
Finally, in the last few seconds, he jumped and recited:
Tim and me, a-huntin' went...
Met three whores in a pop-up tent...
They was three, we was two...
So I bucked one and Timbuktu...