The Living Legend of Peezil Rilly Here

By Hudson Owen

John Lennon said to “give peace a chance.”  What would the world be like without war?

Peezis Rilly Here, who speaks in free verse with rhyme, accidentally stumbles upon such a world when he cleans his gutter.  He breaks the news to the generals and admirals in the Tangopen, who are none too pleased to hear about no more war.  No one calls Peezis a hero.  In fact, he is unemployed and must find a job.  Someone steals his lawn and ships it to the moon for a new golf course.  Clues point to the work of L. Vie and Olivence.  Meanwhile, Peezis’s sidekick Dr. Cerpeption, who speaks in rhymed couplets, looks outside one morning and sees that the future has arrived in his back yard, with a thunk.

It’s a playful, whimsical world these original fictional characters inhabit.  It only lasts awhile.  You can always find this shout from the Sixties and stay there a spell.  Bonus poem at the end.

“Owen’s mind works in ways that few poets’ minds work. His perspective in the first section of the Trilogy — The Living Legend of Peezis Rilly Here — is truly unique, and takes strong, overt political stands.” -- Bernadette Geyer, Bernie E-Zine

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hudson Owen
• Release date: Jan 25, 2013
• ISBN: 9781497726185

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THE

LIVING LEGEND

OF

PEEZIS RILLY HERE

A Poem Cycle by Hudson Owen

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Reviews

Every so often I read a poetry collection that totally throws me for a loop. In the case of Hudson Owen’s The Endless Evolving Trilogy, I would make that two loops.

Owen’s mind works in ways that few poets’ minds work. His perspective in the first section of the Trilogy — The Living Legend of Peezis Rilly Here — is truly unique, and takes strong, overt political stands. While much of the work in this first section hovers on the verge of doggerel, it by no means lessens the powerful messages behind poems like The Carnival of Appetites.

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"Step right up and change your color.

Change your I.Q., bright or duller.

Inflate your rate, improve your tone.

Compose your nose, exchange your kinks.

It’s easier than you suppose," L. Vie winks.

"Squirt silicone. All at the chemical exhibition.

The price is just your inhibition."

–Bernadette Geyer,Bernie E-Zine

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It (book) passes the smell test.

–James Matthew Wilson

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"I found the poems in the trilogy have a bouncy rhythm. Mr. Owen alternates rhyme schemes from free verse to couplets. His free verse often intermingles with rhyme. This enhances variety in form. In the trilogy, the reader meets fascinating fictitious characters: Peezis, Dr. Cerpeption, and a woman he calls Dear...What I like about his poetry is the skill he uses in playing with rhythm and rhyme...I also like his method of writing serious and humorous verse. He handles controversial subjects in a clever manner. I really enjoyed all the poems.

–Dean