Glenn, John. (1921–2016) "A Poetrait of Col. John Glenn" - SIGNEDAn amusing "Poetrait" of the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962, and who following his retirement from NASA, served from 1974 to 1999 as a Democratic United States Senator from Ohio. Penned by an admirer and signed by the subject in black ink "Best regards John Glenn, Jr." The poem is an acrostic (the first letter of each line when read vertically forming the name "Col John Glenn") and reads, in full: Come closer to