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Reviewed by Rich Follett for Readers' Favorite
Reader, beware: Oscar Wilde and Ogden Nash have produced a love child; he is large and in charge, and he is taking no prisoners. Perverted Verse: Doggerel for the Disillusioned by Pete Simmons is a riotous garden of scandalously entertaining tongue-in-cheek verse which leaves no stone unturned in its pursuit of the ultimate impudent rhyme. Absolutely no person, place, or thing is immune; from birthdays to Canada geese, Mother Nature, and hypocrites, through politics, sex, religion, shit (literally), overpopulation, global warming and old age, Pete Simmons applies his witty, irreverent, sardonic, and sublimely gifted pen to dispensing his hilarious personal version of truth for modern times.
One of the most delightful aspects of Pete Simmons' deliciously wicked Perverted Verse: Doggerel for the Disillusioned is the infuriating way he can write a line that has only one possible rhyme in the English language, and then navigate his way to that one rhyme in such a manner that it is actually a surprise - we hate ourselves for being taken in, but delight in the outcome just the same. Many of these predictable-yet-somehow-surprising rhymes carry with them sparks of genius: in “The Weather in Dixie,” Simmons refers to the Bible Belt as “Brutal heat and humidity/a Hades in fluidity.” We rejoice even as we groan; this divine duality is the essence of Simmons’ impish charm.
No apparent rhyme? No problem. From “No Argument”: “Seeing his acts, bigger and littler/what’s the “side” for Adolph Hitler?” Yes, we will forgive Pete Simmons anything, for he is the jongleur for whom we have waited through the leanest of seasons. Perverted Verse: Doggerel for the Disillusioned by Pete Simmons is a rip-roaring, rollicking panacea for postmodern malaise - a lithe and lissome treasure trove of prodigal gimcracks that just may, inexplicably, contain the secrets to solving the problems of the universe. One of the most entertaining collections I have read in recent times.
