The National Poetry Contest had come down to two, a Yale graduate and a Jamaican Rastaman.
They were given a word, and then allowed two minutes to study the word and come up with a poem that contained it.
The word they were given was " Timbuktu ".
First to recite his poem was the Yale graduate.
He stepped up 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 Rastaman top that, they thought.
The Rastaman 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 Rastaman won!