Medieval City Gates

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    The Christos-image
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    from its art-craft junk-shop
    paint-and-plaster medieval jumble
    of pain-worship and death-symbol.
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    The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
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    For Earth’s downtrodden and oppressed,
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