What made you want to go into space

Major Tom

Why are you the sole commander of this mission

Knowing that we might never return

Think of the French Foreign Legion Luke

Most of the people that I have ever met

Who have served with the French Foreign Legion

Were running away from from something

A sad love affair A crime A shameful secret

Each had a different story to tell

To an extent this is why I asked for our mission

An endless mission to discover God

That is why there is only one escape pod

One of us will I hope find God

Whereas the other

With a good wind behind them

Will return to earth

How will we choose

The choice has already been made

Each of us has a pink envelope

It contains our final order

Please explain

One order tells you to prepare for the pod

And return to earth

The other will tell you

To go to Deck Six

Deck Six

On Deck Six a book awaits

Just a book

Yes just a book

This will tell you

All that you need to know

Is this book

The Bible

It is indeed

The Bible

When are we supposed to open our envelopes

There will be an unmistakable signal

And then we must open them together

At exactly the same time

One of us will stay aboard this ship

The other will return to earth within a year

It has all been planned in the finest detail

So we both just have to wait for the signal

What were you running from Major Tom

The same as you Luke

We are both running from the same thing




Italian Science Fiction (2026)