Gaspra 951 a Flora asteroid orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.
Its rocky metallic surface is pocked with impact craters.

Saint Romuald born in 951 fucked himself stupid as a youth
& left home when he saw his daddy Sergius kill his opposite in a duel.
Rommy became a monk & wrote, ‘Empty yourself completely.
Sit waiting like the chick who tastes nothing & eats nothing
but what her mother brings him.’
He got canon’s eyes for that & did rather well in real estate.

Emperor Shizong also known as Wuyu was a drunk who liked to hunt.
Wuyu took to the field in 951 & stopped Chinese advance.
He was butchered by his own officer after the battle.

Born 951 Grigor Narekatsi,
Armenian monk, poet, mystical philosopher & theologian.
Khosrov his father Khosrov was archbishop.
Grigor wrote ‘on exposing the unseen, on the disclosure of secrets, on laying open the cover up.’

Donald Rumsfeld, Champion of Aspartame 951 that sweet poison
Architect of the Iraq invasion said, in an interview with the New York Times,
‘Oh my goodness gracious me, we can know an awful lot of what is going on
in this world by punching a mouse on its nose. I'm standing here
doing something & I think, what in the world am I doing here? It's a big surprise.’

The Don once, ‘ferocious in pursuing what he wants’
now dwells in an adobe houseacross from a working dairy farm.
His family has horses, a donkey, a mule, cats, and Reggie the dog.

Joyce his missus said, ‘Don has the Reaganesque fixation
with clearing brush and chopping wood.’
They ride, ski, hike, fish, and skate on the dairy farm pond.
The people of Iraq & Afghanistan must wish him well in his retirement.