Astronaut and Sausage

Brave Astronaut once went into space,
To see distant stars and establish Contact.
The rocket took off, cosmodrome was left behind,
Astronaut rushed forward, following his dream.

But in the turmoil, before flying into space,
Astronaut forgot to take food with him.
In space, a terrible hunger seized him,
And he felt terrified in empty black space.




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And suddenly in the control room, next to the helm,
Sausage appeared as if out of nowhere.
She smiled, as if conveying congratulations from Earth,
And she invited hungry Astronaut to the table.

Astronaut experienced a surge of joy and delight,
And passionately thanked Sausage for her visit.
They had dinner together, like good old friends.
And Astronaut realized that goodness exists even in cold space.

But in the morning, when he woke up, he could not move.
Stern people in white coats stood around the bed,
They looked at Astronaut with genuine amazement.
"Where is Sausage? Did you eat it?" - asked Astronaut.

"We couldn’t do that, we don’t eat our own kind.
This is the planet of Sausage, you flew at night.
We found out that Sausage was flying with you, and you ate her.
It is impossible to imagine a more monstrous crime!
We were preparing for Contact with alien civilization,
But we didn’t expect that cannibal would come to us!"

Astronaut cried and woke up, and saw that people in white coats
Were standing around bed again, and he could not move again.

"You screamed at the whole hospital because you dreamed,
That you ended up on the planet of Sausage.
Impossible to believe, we sent totally crazy man into space!
We'll give you injections in brain, and maybe someday,
Not very soon, you will recover, and we will let you go."

Astronaut cried and woke up, but there was no bed,
He was lying in the field, and around stood his classmates,
And his fellow students from college, and his wife,
And his children, and his neighbors, and relatives of neighbors,
And some other strangers he saw for the first time.

"You probably don’t know that you’ve been sleeping for years,
And all this time you are trying to wake up, but you can’t.
And we must appear in your dreams and talk all sorts of nonsense.
We're tired of this! Leave us alone! Wake up or die!"

Astronaut cried and...




The original text was written by me in Russian. I haven't studied English systematically so the translation may not be ideal. The main work was done by Google Translate, I just corrected obvious absurdities, where I noticed them and where I did not confuse them with brilliant insights.