Best Indianapolis Poems

It was in July of 1945 
  And the USS Indianapolis
Had a crew of nearly 12 hundred alive
  But a Japanese sub fired and did not miss
 
American sailors had completed their job
  Delivering parts for the first atomic bomb
Some sank with...

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The date is twenty six July,nineteen hundred forty five
soon, only three hundred seventeen would be alive
Eleven hundred ninety six of you assigned 
eight hundred seventy nine lives denied,

Two torpedoes, that found their mark
at twelve fourteen in the morning, very dark
the first hit the bow, blew...

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Indianapolis

Look around
What is it that you see?
Is it the different under tones of grey hues
coming from the tall cement and steel that towers around you
or the numerous people who are numb to the fact that you even exist
walking through their lives not even to bother...

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With all the towns and cities we've got,
where can you go without getting shot?
Another fool went on a shooting spree.
This time, at a Federal Express facility.
The city was in Indiana called Indianapolis;
eight persons dead and many wounded because of this.
Another sad episode we hear about...

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The sky is red
The fog is thick
My body buzzes
My mind is sick

Too late to tell
If this is all a dream
I'm constantly grinding
Inside the machine

I'm spinning a web
To catch all my hopes
I'm getting closer
To the end of my rope

No solace found
In this sea of distress
What can...

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I know a girl who lives in Indy,
She wore a short skirt on a day that was windy,
When the wind blew, she thought it was a gas.
To show all the people her little cute ass.
 
As she strolled along, she bumped into a man,
He smiled...

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It is the Indianapolis 500, I am in the lead of course.
My car has the power of more than a buggy and horse. 
Wait! Did that car just pass me? Racing for me is not a whim!
I am irritated and peeved, so I catch up...

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Examining the sidewalks of Indianapolis
    reveals a surfeit of oranges and apples
  'Course we're talking about peels and cores
    over which anti-litterbuggers have started a war

  Well, it's a fight to the finish against urban blight
 ...

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Schwitzer, .... Krannert,
                            Fountains, .... Choose!

All Tomorrow's, .... Timing's, .... Grew!...

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Simon says: Thirteen’s my lucky number.
Thirteen years ago, I took dad’s money
and bargained with Time to make my name known.
Fate nudged its elbow into my circuit.

Penske luck and talent helped carry me.
I have had the best mentors in the world
who helped me master the intricacies
of...

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The term driver of victory
came to me unbidden, unexplored
I tossed it around in my dendrite chambers
My muse caught it and ran with it

She is amusing, but she has great ideas too
She decided Victory was a race car, 
We daringly painted her in our favorite colors.
Hot...

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