The shirt reads: “I did not survive the plague for this shit,” in blackletter.
Beside it, an opossum stands upright in a red medieval robe and cap with its arms folded, framed by illuminated borders.
The robe is drawn from a real fourteenth-century portrait pose and the animal wearing it is entirely out of patience. The mismatch between the reverence of the illustration and the language is the whole design.
For a bad week, for the medieval shelf, and for the opossum constituency at their most exasperated.
