Dark Horse Portal for Deb Portal is a video game where you wield a gun that shoots holes. One you go into, one you come out of, each end delicately placed on the wall, facing one another in Escherian drama. In this portal, Mommy is a robot, and the robot puts you through hell. But let's not talk tech. In life, disparate points may also be connected. See: leading group fitness classes back when my body could hold my bottomless desire for pain; and ten years later, seated on the floor of a “dungeon” in a nondescript New Jersey Holiday Inn, wrapped in the arms of the woman who’s just lavished bruises upon my ass and thighs. But Nat, you're burying the lede. This poem is really about “Dark Horse,” Katy Perry’s 2013 “witchy and dark” pop hit, the video where she, uh . . . pretends to be Egyptian? Yeah, that song. The one to which I pushed eager bodies into cardio panic long ago. It was an up-tempo remix, to be clear on this. When I taught that track, I thought I would die.…