I’m following the Science!
Like a lost but trusting waif
I’m chasing after wisdom
And a promise I’ll be safe.
I’m following the Science
For its methodology
Will manufacture better worlds
Just made for you and me
As I’m following the Science
Right across the bright green fields
Left unbereft by insect deaths
And with new five fold yields
And I’m following the Science
As it leads me through the woods,
Through thickets of appliances
And dumped consumer goods
Then I’m following the Science
Though I don’t know what it means
When it hurries me past clearings full
Of gods caught in machines
Still, I’m following the Science,
Past jarred body parts in brine,
Caught up in roots with some pursuits
Of Dr Frankenstein’s
And I’m following the Science
Straight past Cottontail & Flopsy
And Peter Rabbit in a cage
Awaiting an autopsy
And I’m following the Science
Which now decks me with a halter
To lead me through the deep dark wood
To a thing built like an altar
Then I’m following the Science
Deeper in, and on we race,
And the Science hands me callipers
For measuring my face
And I’m following the Science
To see how you can be me
Through the science of eugenics
With a can of Zyklon B
And I’m following the Science
As we fall down a black hole
To the bottom where a boffin
Is now genemapping my soul
Til I’m following the Science
To the surface, with aplomb,
To emerge deep in a desert
Where it’s built an atom bomb
Then I’m following the Science
With Apollo! Riding pillion
I’ll trawl his halls for carbon spoils
At 500 parts per million
And I’m following the Science!
Though by now I’m double-blinded
So I can’t see its complicity
In the crimes that humankind did
Through following the Science,
Nor the planet that we’ve wanked on,
For the Science seldom makes it clear
That we’re no more than plankton
And following the Science
While tugging at our cocks
Has merely helped to bind us
To Prometheus’s rocks.
So sure, follow the Science,
But calculate the odds.
Scientists are human too,
And Heaven has no Gods.