Every Saturday, 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 28-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
A female body can love profoundly. What he wanted was to have sex with the least amount of involvement possible, and he basically told me that at the very beginning and I thought it might work, but it didn’t. Not for me. It may have been great for him. He said it was. I’d agreed to be nobody. A female body. Available. If a woman does that, that is what she is. Nobody. A man will not care about that woman. This is why women try to get guys to pay a price that, to them, translates into being valued. Buy dinner, give gifts, phone when they don’t want to phone. If a woman doesn’t make a guy do these things, then she’s just a body. It’s all just too fucking stupid and destructive. Hopelessness in a world where one can love profoundly.
