Machicolation - In medieval fortification, opening in the floor of a projecting parapet through which boiling oil or molten lead could be poured on assailants.

Machicolation

walk this way,
grasp the concept
of zero, hieroglyphics
predicted the theater state,
the assailants now know the 
metaphysical meaning to movements
of the heavens, We behind the cloak of
ritual watch your demise of politically fragmented
tommyrot,

donned in our
vests stuffed with
rock salt, flak jackets,
your pathetic stabbing
spears, our Elite cauldrons
of boiling oil, we preside over
the ascension, less conquerors
and more catalyst as a matter of
civic pride expanding our power and
influence, walk this way, grasp the concept
of zero.

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist