Scientific Method in the New Fade

scientific method became the new religion
at the dawn of the Atomic Age, the other name
for the New Fade

the trouble is that scientific method
became the Gregorian Chant of these unholy times

everyone says that this is the best of all possible worlds
in which to examine the past present future
and yet none of these are illuminated
when all of them are lost in an endless file,
the wheels on a car overturned on a slippery road,
spinning fruitlessly