Poetry Contest!
by Jean
This was sent to me by a friend and I thought it quite funny, hope you do to! The National Poetry Contest was now down to the last two contestants; a Yale graduate and a Jamaican Rasta man. They were given a word and were 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; their destination? Timbuktu." A big applause went up! No way could the Rasta man top that, they thought. The Rasta man calmly made his way to the microphone and recited: “Me and Tim, went on de road, three thief stop wi, an want wi load. They were three and we were two So I bucked one and Timbuktu." The crowd went wild!! The Rasta man won. Of course!!
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