Timbuktu
A nationwide poetry contest was being held for college students. It was down to the two finalists: a sharp female english student at Harvard, and a redneck from Alabama State. The judges gave the finalists the same word, and they had to make an impromptu poem out of that word. The audience?s favorite poem would win the contest. The Harvard english student was picked to go first, and the word was ?Timbuktu.? So she thought for a couple minutes, got…

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