{"id":751,"date":"2025-02-27T01:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T17:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidfperry.com\/changinglines\/?post_type=stop&p=751"},"modified":"2025-02-27T01:30:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T17:30:33","slug":"stick-a-punk-on-it","status":"publish","type":"stop","link":"https:\/\/davidfperry.com\/changinglines\/stop\/stick-a-punk-on-it\/","title":{"rendered":"STICK A -PUNK ON IT"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]1\/3\/15<\/span><\/p>\n

Fogbank cap-punctuated terawatt LED arrays\u2014light theory from near futures, alternate worlds
\nB<\/span>ought on speculation, pure abundance you imagine and you <\/span>buy<\/span><\/i> it\u2014lights coursing up & out & through
\nWhite-red-green-blue-white-mirrorball Pudong from the Bund, golden terroir above the muck-black Huangpu
\nSilver scales where you go down, old fish, where the go-downs went, the docks, catfish mudflat rats, bamboo everything
\nSepia-toned coolies, ladders, European and white American race enthusiasts out for a day at the track
\nToday\u2019s tourism tunnel and the \u201930s wallpapered Deco dummies beneath
\nTibet Road, Line 1 Entrance, People\u2019s Park overlaid on the Concession-era colonial pony oval<\/span><\/p>\n

Until <\/span>the fireworks<\/span><\/i> crowd surges down the promenade, down Zhongshan Yi Lu, the street is China\u2019s China China, same name all over China, everywhere the center, too, all the edges gathered, attending power, hoping to, polished floors, Heaven reflecting us there, and blood, too<\/span><\/p>\n

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as underground live streaming <\/span>
\n<\/span>from the Bund Sightseeing Tunnel\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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where up from hungry Hell or worse,<\/span><\/p>\n

thirsty Heaven, floating sudden down<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>not yours<\/span><\/p>\n

the blood<\/span><\/p>\n

not yet<\/span><\/p>\n

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*<\/span><\/p>\n

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I was never there\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and even if I was<\/span><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t see anything<\/span><\/p>\n

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*\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nanjing Dong Lu: Forever 21, your surprise companions, they <\/span><\/p>\n

go with you when your heart stops, Eight of Them, Immortals, riding\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

in Lotus, Ferrari, Maserati, Porsche, Tesla, Lamborghini, Jaguar<\/span>
\n<\/span>& Hummer<\/span><\/p>\n

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in that Floating World made\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0of engineers, managers, floating on<\/span><\/p>\n

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peasant vendors on trikes hauling all<\/span><\/p>\n

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below to the Sorrowful World: There, where\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I enter Uniqlo<\/span><\/p>\n

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*<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Tunnel is real takes you through MAGMA and HADES to PUDONG<\/span><\/p>\n

in SK People Movers to 2001 where one may still\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

believe in old futures, something Vegas fantastic\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

in space, even, and yet time only<\/span><\/p>\n

travels backwards through you<\/span><\/p>\n

who remember nothing\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

but the world as it was<\/span><\/p>\n

not as it couldn\u2019t have been<\/span><\/p>\n

but was for your memory\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

speaking its wonderful<\/span><\/p>\n

lies flash-frightened<\/span><\/p>\n

you may smile<\/span><\/p>\n

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*<\/span><\/p>\n

Spirit money for souls of those\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

departed as here rumor burns\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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and speculations run to cash coupons <\/span>
\n<\/span>float down from the club above\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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the Neocolonial balcony over the Bund<\/span>
\n<\/span>where Opium-for-silver inscribed\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ghost web headline: RELATIVES OF MISSING VICTIMS STORM HEAVEN<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","station":[58,30],"class_list":["post-751","stop","type-stop","status-publish","hentry","station-nanjing-rd-e","station-peoples-square"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidfperry.com\/changinglines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stop\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidfperry.com\/changinglines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stop"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidfperry.com\/changinglines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stop"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidfperry.com\/changinglines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"station","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidfperry.com\/changinglines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}