Being a beautiful young man gets you where?

Where does it get you in China?

A beautiful young man on the way to the “flower ocean”
A beautiful young woman behind him on a silent electric motor bike
the kind of motorbike that can be manufactured in a chain of ten thousand events
regarding the division of labor

wow so clean their beauty i could not stop looking
also the middle aged ladies step dancing in the field of California poppies
freewheeling a JBL loudspeaker
expanding the telescoping handle higher and higher
the one in front holding a selfie stick that captures all
upload on douyin or xiaohongshu or bilibili
actually despite
the video appearing a cerebral formulaic glitzing beauty
once gone and twice done over
5 women dancing with scarves in formation
red scarves, orange poppies
in my lifetime china has reached autonomy from merely, mildly
one time homeland of american piracy
I remember an exciting news item from my childhood — the Chinese
developed entirely autonomous manuscripts of harry potter,
harry potter gets involved in a train heist, one high speed train after another
harry potter jailbreaks voldemort’s iphone on the way to the world bank
laughing ferociously to the world bank
harry potter stops at a food stand in the long road into suzhou
harry potter is stuffing himself with jiaozi and finds a piece of pubic hair
harry potter sings xiao fong to a girl he meets outside a bookstore outside of BeiDa
harry potter wonders about the men that fought between him
and gets the shits, shits in a granny’s field, she shakes her head
repeatedly like a rattle
harry potter journeys westward in search of enlightenment
harry potter is engaged in a long series of boudoir picaresque bouts
harry potter sleeps
harry potter goes to taipei
harry potter reads about cultural anthropology
harry potter enters an art museum dedicated to glass in Shanghai
harry potter is insanely magical
harry potter…
enjoyable on his own and not as fanfiction,
the kind of thing that Miguel Cervantes lampoons in Don Quixote part II,
at the beginning of the dawn of print in the west,
pirated don quixotes became more available than the official don quixote
handled from one office or
released many years after Don Quixote part I.
as if the ersatz harry potter became more beautiful than the real harry potter,
or at least more innovative and more just.
post post colonial harry porter with billowing robe
in a field of california poppies planted through globalization in china
beautiful on a 2000 rmb electric bike with his young girlfriend,
Hermione.