Adam Fieled (Plymouth Meeting Pennsylvania, USA): "Author's Bookshelf"
“I am the hippest bookshelf in the Midwest. All hail!”
An émigré, such as I was, walked North Milwaukee Ave
as though it were Main Street, Manayunk. Myopic Books beckoned,
always, from a huge height of literary hipness, and yes,
I got them to carry me, Steve not having a full-length yet.
Few of us get to realize such glamor-puss goals— going
forward, the phallic thrust of conquest is never continual.
In fact, time’s waters forced a soaking in the sluggishness
of stasis for this particular writer, wrung out on a decade
of complete craziness, as he was. All I needed to know then,
as the congeries of circumstances brought matters to a head,
was that this was lifetime material, a miraculous prize. That’s as I
understood how the game, beginning with Myopic, had gone.
It was to be made an instant classic. A king from a pawn.
© Adam Fieled 2025
An émigré, such as I was, walked North Milwaukee Ave
as though it were Main Street, Manayunk. Myopic Books beckoned,
always, from a huge height of literary hipness, and yes,
I got them to carry me, Steve not having a full-length yet.
Few of us get to realize such glamor-puss goals— going
forward, the phallic thrust of conquest is never continual.
In fact, time’s waters forced a soaking in the sluggishness
of stasis for this particular writer, wrung out on a decade
of complete craziness, as he was. All I needed to know then,
as the congeries of circumstances brought matters to a head,
was that this was lifetime material, a miraculous prize. That’s as I
understood how the game, beginning with Myopic, had gone.
It was to be made an instant classic. A king from a pawn.
© Adam Fieled 2025
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