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Issue 1 -- Pals of David Bromige, Sonoma, 1980s

READING David Bromige:



Bromige INFLUENCED:

Steve Tills' "Feeling like Food"

     















Bromige the wit'S end in Christopher Reiner's first issue (Summer 1992) of WITZ.

"WITZ END" because (1)it is located at the end of the first issue, so it's at the end of the magazine; it's the tail/tale of the first issue, and the poet cannot locate some tail, too, or not, forgive me; (2)the speaker, whose wife or lover is gone for the day, while he's alone and "lonely" or horny ("The King grew hornier and hornier") is apparently at "wit's end" of his midday's tethers; (3)Maybe "wit," and this new mag WITZ, leads to masturbatory "jest" and other flotsam and jetsam and "whitsun" and jouissance and a kind of solitary celebration of male "self" when there's nobody around, too ("The King grew hornier and hornier. He had a jester [penis?]. By two o'clock [rhymes with "cock"], the loading dock [rhymes with aroused, erect "cock" ready to orgasm?] . . . then the batter [baseball batter, cake batter, penis] rose up, making Yorkshire pudding of his theory [his ejaculation all over his abstractions?] [who is] . . . "polishing Rossini"; (4)Oh, it's "WITZ END" also, of course, because it's working as the first issue's PURPOSE, end.
                                                                                                    Steve Tills