The Don & 951

951 Gaspra, a Flora Asteroid 2 million years old orbits our 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 & fled 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 very 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 a Chinese advance from the South. Wuyu was killed by one of his officers after the battle.

Grigor Narekatsi born 951 was an Armenian monk, poet, mystical philosopher & theologian. 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 951 Aspartame, architect of the Iraq War. The bright light behind blacks sites, the mediaeval dungeons of our times 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 lives in an adobe house across 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, & skate on the dairy farm pond. The refugees & maimed of Iraq & Afghanistan & all those held by the agency & tortured in secrecy will be wishing him contentment in his retirement.

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