The seven trumpet blasts

I begin to walk to Stepney
As the first angel blows his trumpet –
I take a photo of a busy yellow garage
Then I walk under the railway bridge

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I see the remains of an old house
Destroyed in an air raid
Where a living room used to be
There is a pavement and two trees

A working-man is fixing the phone lines
For a quiet residential area
I pass through the well-trodden ground
Of the old Jewish cemetery

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I pass by the row of Alms Houses
Protected by old iron railings
A second trumpet blast across the sky
I walk through Stepney church gate

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Another trumpet blast in the sky
I return back now down Whitehorse Road;
The Tower Project. A car park with two white vans
The Half Moon Theatre seems to glow in the sun

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Another blast from a trumpet across the sky
A man carrying two shopping bags
Cursing and threatening the world around him
Opens his door into a derelict building

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A third trumpet blast in the summer heat
The shops opposite almost empty
The abandoned Callegaris Restaurant
The triple railway bridges of Limehouse

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Franks Café near the c2c railway bridge
I stop to photograph thebridge wall
The huge columns that support the railway bridge
And the old cattle fountain

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A fourth trumpet sounds in the sky
I walk passed the Marina Elite apartments
A woman in a surgical mask at the zebra crossing
I go socially distancing in Tesco Express

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A fifth trumpet blast above,
The gash of the sky between tall red buildings
Walking to the end of Commercial Road
I stop to see the graffiti on the towpath wall

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I take a photo of 777 Commercial Road
A listed building empty 30 years or more
The busy crossroads into West India Dock Road,
The sixth angel blows his trumpet

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The skyscrapers cut clear into the sky
The blast of the seventh trumpet,
An eerie silence across the silver bending river
Babylon the Great has fallen

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