The National Poetry Contest had come down to two, a American Yale graduate and a Jamaican Rastaman who considered himself a graduate of life. They were given one word, and then allowed two minutes to study the word and 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 Jamaican Rastaman top that, they thought. The Rastaman calmly made his way to the microphone and recited:
Me and Tim a huntin' went
Meet three hot girls in a tent
Dem was three, and we was two,
So Mi buck one, and Timbuktu .
The Rastaman won!!
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