Bio
Daniel Schulz (he/him) is a U.S.-German writer, known for the book and exhibition Kathy Acker in Seattle that he curated for the
Goethe Institute and Fantagraphic Books. He is known for over a hundred publications in various journals such as Gender Forum,
Fragmented Voices, and the Milton Review, and the catalog Get Rid of Meaning. His chapbooks are Welfare State and No Change to Abuse.
IG: @danielschulzpoet
Daniel Schulz
Initiation Rituals
Kids set up like flagpoles,
their mouths: tape recorders of chants.
The national anthem on infinity loop.
Their brains a heimat film.
Planet of the Alps.
The national flag, a ski mask.
They dress like kidnappers,
with style. Professional janitors,
taking the country back, kicking
and screaming, into the past.
Mouths gagged with nostalgia.
Don't kinkshame my conservatism!
All hail the liberation font.
All Stockholm syndrome is love.