ADVENT DAY SEVENTEEN: MARIA DAMON

OUR THEME TODAY

Our theme today: Nazism.

April nooses, cruel Hitler cream.

Improvised dressage with a unicorn in jodhpurs.

Today I’m Mother’s-Birthday-fatalistic,

turn on the waterworks, I’m on fire.

Kiss my feet, Hitler youth, in all your streaming

blondness braided

nooselike

a bog-person-to-be 

elaborate stitching and

all that ayahuasca in the 

moors and mosses.

I heard you can fuck yourself

through a crystal straw, though

it’s not important as long as

the single-horned bull plunges

further to the right.  The sa-

cred mysteries of street cred,

plastic money and due props

trine Hitler riding a unicorn,

I meant, riding down Wall 

Street on a moist mollusk

masquerading as a

fat narwhal, sleek as

Diana Nyad.  And 

that’s your card-reading 

for today.

Maria Damon is professor and chair of the Department of Humanities and Media Studies at the Pratt Institute of Art