Each week, we’ll be posting a brand new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Regular guitarist is visually documenting individuals, locations and occasions from his band’s 42-year run, with textual content by vocalist Jean Smith.
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Buddy was a vibe. Buddy had points. He wore the cop uniform he received on the thrift retailer extra regularly, and other people observed. In the event that they honked their horn and waved as they drove by, Buddy knew they weren’t one of many libtards attempting to wreck every thing. There have been fewer commies in his face. After which there was Denise, the one mother with three children beneath 5. After all he felt sorry for her. By no means sufficient cash. No scarcity of issues. Every time he noticed her, Buddy knew he’d be listening to a sob story that ended together with her asking for cash, which he normally gave her. Generally simply to eliminate her. She rubbed him the mistaken method, moaning on about being afraid if the conservatives have been elected, they’d lower applications that benefited her and her children. Just like the $10-a-day childcare that meant she might get a job and the brand new dental program. Buddy instructed her to not fear, that clearly these weren’t going to be lower, however Denise stored telling him she’d heard they’d be.
Buddy preferred how he felt splashing the money, serving to Denise out, however he was barely making sufficient to pay his personal payments. Denise was a downer, and she or he wasn’t his accountability. He deliberate to say one thing quickly, however he didn’t know what but. If he might keep away from it, he’d favor to not have an issue together with her. It could be greatest if she thought the rift was her resolution.
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“Now That You’re Right here” from The Eagle And The Poodle (Matador, 1996) (obtain):
