Every week, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 36-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
Prize arm
rubber bandit
enthusiasm stripped away
Socrates
assumption
blonde religion rigged with terminal velocity
Write your own damn anthem
run it up the flagpole
Enduring every absurd injustice
by re-naming us
animal most likely to go insane
Self taught heredity
Climb up on that bar stool
and come out swinging
Success words
equations normally known as lies
The simplest of stories don’t get told
the simplest of stories don’t get old
“Prize Arm” from The Eagle And The Poodle (Matador, 1996) (download):
