strawman dancing

i cannot hack it in this mad place
circling feet beat systolic pace

for unveiling the asymptote
unending Isis
spoiled for mason's measure
manufacturing crisis

doth power tire not the tyrant
pale-toothed unawakened
while from he who hath not
all is painfully taken

rest is the promise to these
the poor paying peasant
but crucified their god
now attention! to the present

and who best understand 
the slave but a salve?
how to shake his straw 
before flame at the cave

but i cannot be shaken 
nor stirred by fright
I worship the veil
and walk by night