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I simply argue that the cross be raised again

at the center of the market place

as well as the steeple of the church,

I am recovering the claim that

Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles

but on a cross between two thieves;

on a town garbage heap;

at a crossroad of politics so cosmopolitan that they had to write His title

in Hebrew and in latin and in Greek...

and at the kind of place where cynics talk smut,

and thieves curse and soldiers...

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