Category: Joke Board
Subject: FW: Poetry
THE NATIONAL POETRY CONTEST HAD COME DOWN TO TWO:
A YALE GRADUATE AND A REDNECK FROM EAST TEXAS.
THEY WERE GIVEN A WORD, 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! THERE WAS NO WAY THAT COULD BE
BEAT, THEY THOUGHT
AS THE REDNECK CALMLY MADE HIS WAY TO THE
MICROPHONE AND RECITED:
"ME AND TIM, A' HUNTIN' WE 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.
Ha, ha, ha! That's funny.