Last one to know

My shuttle is set to lift off

in less than a week

and I just saw on the news

—didn’t hear it from homebase first, just to be clear—

that one of our shuttles had been hit

by an asteroid 

in deep space.

And,

to be honest,

I’m not sure I believe it.

It is

very possible

that a hunk of ice and rock

hurtling through space

just crashed into the shuttle.

I suppose anything is possible.

Stranger things, and all that.

However,

my concern,

lies in the ability to get to

deep space

and not being able to detect an asteroid.

Something doesn’t add up.

Maybe it doesn’t add up because

I am due to

go so far away

that I might as well cease to exist.

Maybe that’s why I feel

a little uneasy

hearing about disaster through the news.

I don’t know why I signed up for this.