1. So why did President Obama Decline to meet the Dalai Lama? It’s said that he must curry favor With China. Yes, it has our waiver To toss its people in the clink For how they pray or what they think. And we’ve resolved that we won’t fret About the way it rules Tibet.
2. For going along when China’s rotten It’s hard to think of what we’ve gotten.
Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”