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 33-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
This Machine
Making it anything
so it isn’t nothing now
I am touching at the future
with a tin edge hollow stamp
I wove the spin of endurance
knots hanging in black twine
jarred up on a plank shelf
oiled to a (dull) shine
I am wanting (watching)
I am wishing
for wind
to knock this stillness out
Making it anything
so it isn’t nothing now
Screaming on track
pounding up loud
dreaming down pipe on a sigh
sifting on freight tight
this machine rides
Making it anything
so it isn’t nothing
“This Machine” from Dovetail (K, 1992) (download):
