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Mushroom Montoya circumnavigated the globe aboard the USS Trippe DE1075 after killing soldiers, woman and children in Viet Nam. Now, as a shaman, he heals the planet one person at a time. Mushroom Montoya has an active shamanic healing practice in Long Beach, California and he teaches at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Cal State Univ. Long Beach.

Friday, July 4, 2014

The Bam and Kaboom


When I was a child
The bam and kaboom
The flashing colors in the sky

Thrilled me

I would pretend that I

The boy, I, the hero,

Was shooting down

Enemy planes and enemy jets.
I would pretend that I

The boy, I, the hero,

Was saving America,

Protecting women

Protecting children

When I was a child

the bam and kaboom

The flashing colors in the sky

Thrilled me

Not now, not anymore

Death and sorrow

Pain and anguish

The bam and kaboom
Scream of shattered body parts

Flashing their bloody

Awful colors in the sky
And every year I watch

Hoping, wishing, praying

That once again

The bam and kaboom
The flashing colors in the sky

Will thrill me


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