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The Australian Poetry Competition had come down two two finalists -- a university graduate and an old aboriginal.



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 university 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 old aboriginal top that, they thought.


The old aboriginal calmly made his way to the microphone and recited;


Me an' Tim a huntin' went
Met three whores in a pop-up tent
They were three, and we was two
So I bucked one, and timbuktu.

That brought the tears to my eye's whilst bend double and the wife shouting in the background " are you alright, what's up with you.