I don't know how you're defining 'trying to be clever' tbh.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
For instance...
"I'm closer to the Golden DawnImmersed in Crowley's uniformOf imageryI'm living in a silent filmPortraying Himmler's sacred realmOf dream reality"
... is that trying to be clever?
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
There's quite a lot of that sort of stuff pre-Ziggy!
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I don't think of that as clever, just evocative. I'm thinking more of the, yeah, Elvis Costello vein, of couplets and quips and tricky wordplay.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
Right, get you, no he did not, thank God!
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
he definitely did it sometimes, but i agree that it's good he largely avoided it and in any case the examples that come to mind (including the one i posted) rarely come off as smug or obnoxious
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
He doesn't go much for rhymes, which precludes a lot of opportunities cleverness.
― Julius Caesar Memento Hoodie (bendy), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 17:35 (three years ago) link
Last two posts otm.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 17:36 (three years ago) link