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Based on the recollections of Esther Baker as written by her son Howard, and recommended by her Grandson Richard Baker.

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I crunch
Across a path of broken glass
That glitters in the gutters
Through the shards of shattered shutters.
I never knew
This city had so many windows
Until I saw them that way
In the dim glow of light
From the rising sparks
That are drawn to the dawn
From the dying dark
And a perfect stranger handed me
A mug of Sally Army tea.

In the crater
On the corner a broken mains
Bleeds into the drains
Where a roof collapsed in vain
In a cloud of ash and shame.
It's a city of no straight lines
No front doors or shop signs
Prudential clock's lost time
And all around it
The wrecks of office desks
Feed incendiary fires
As a headless lamppost
Leans into trolley-bus wires.
It's insanity
But here's me
And a mug of Sally Army tea.

In the shelter
The bomb's arhythmic beat
Spoke distance to our feet
As we huddled in the heat
Of confined spaces
The booms diverted dust
And spoke of broken trust
In gravity to clusters
Of our frightened faces.
The ceiling
A broken promise made
Came down in a cascade
Of concrete and of screams
And crashing dark, and
I swam for all I'm worth
For the surface of the earth
Where a helping hand it hauls me out into
This night of sparks.
Of thirty three
There's just me
To hand a mug of Sally Army tea.

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from A Northern Coastal Town: Hull In The Blitz, released July 16, 2021
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Joe Solo is an award-winning musician, writer, poet, activist, broadcaster and washing machine engineer from Scarborough.

Live he has an ever growing reputation as both a performer and raconteur, being thought-provoking, comical and punch-the-air political often in the same breath.

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