Long Indianapolis Poems

University midterm periods bring early mornings charged with energy drinks and espresso shots. Evenings are spent trading quizlets in Bass Library or in late night cram sessions in the common room. After several days of...

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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...

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At the age 23 I struggled with my horrible addiction of heroin I had tried to stop but its not easy. Going almost four years being addicted to the devil I had many complications and...

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I once traveled around the U. S. on a Greyhound bus,
My wife thought I was crazy, but she made little fuss,
It was, by far, the most awesome adventure I ever took
Three changes of clothes, lots...

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TRAIN – 1958

On a warm summer evening
at North Philadelphia Station
the 6:19 on track three, the "Spirit
of Saint Louis-Limited" from Penn Station
New York, Newark and Trenton bound for
Thirtieth Street, Paoli, Lancaster, Harrisburg
Altoona, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Cincinnati
Indianapolis and...

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We have designated drivers and designated hitters
But where are the designated cowboys? 
The designated artists?
The designated illustrators? 
The designated astronauts?  
The designated dancers?

Who decides?
Is it the child or a parent? 
A mentor? A committee?...

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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...

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Though still as loving, still as kind and gentle, still as beautiful as they were in days of yore…
today’s grandmas are a different breed than the grandmas who came before.

Although they still share some similarities…the...

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Stepping backwards into our future,
blowing into the bag of our achievements.
Fabric stretching reality; ready to burst

Indianapolis track of progression.
Conscience, hard wired from the system
and morality, a discarded well worn tyre.

Digging mines to bury nature,
while we...

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At no time did our lives ever bond; instead, we became a cacophony of confusion. I can't imagine why we assumed that surface and skin-deep beauty was enough to sustain a relationship.  I suppose...

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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.
...

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Henry sat in
His room staring at his
Ceiling thinking, that any man that
Thought exactly as he did
Ought to have his, head examined
Or be seekin, professional help, 
But he could never convince himself
It was what he needed...

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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
...

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sitting on the bench in the middle of a field
eating properly made cornbread with blue bonnet on it
watching her do yoga and still not understanding
thanking God for putting me exactly where i am meant to...

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Good legacy is one of a kind treasure
That will last for generations
With the bucket of love we all share
Shall remain forever

We listened with our hearts, eyes and minds
To the knowledge you have shared from within
As...

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I
All sorts of fears
A place of tears 
And all these years
I thought these letters
Strung together for a collector?
No, far from such 
C O I M E T R O PH O B I A
Intimated I...

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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...

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From Sacramento to Indianapolis, she accompanied me
on the plane, ever reminding me that she was there.
She lived with me day and night for a year or more,
tightly holding my hands both physically and mentally.

Her presence...

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Systematically I work as I go through each and every room
With my invisible hyssop branch I paint
I paint the Lamb’s sacrificial blood over each and every entry way
Every doorpost and every window
Upon each and every...

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My dear Louisiana residents of now and the past,
It is my massive pleasure in,
Saying that our mission has been accomplished.
Seeing our spectacular Saints marching in,
In the Super Bowl sizzling the,
Old Colts carefully into a,
New age...

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Interstate 80 Des Moines Iowa January of 1981
I was driving a new red Mustang with T-tops
I felt sizzling hot

Everyone ahead of me was inching along
What is wrong with all these OLD people?
I raced around them

I...

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RICHARD AND ME
I never fell in love with her
until we were in Raintree County.
 
She almost won the big one
with that one 
I forget 
who beat her out,
but it was not important
she won for me.
 
I was...

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Ode To Wayne Gretzky

We all carry the same genes
and look how different we turn out;
I honed my skills to playing hockey
and look how far I’ve come.
         ...

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My car was flying in the air upside down
Off the freeway, headed toward trees
I had never heard of black ice, had no idea about it
I was only twenty-eight-years old
But I knew I was going to...

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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...

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