'Yo! Mr President, there's something in the air ',
said a US White House general, as he made his boss aware. 
'You mean another rumour? Oh God, no not again!'
'Well, it's worse than that this time, sir, this'll fry your brain;
we think it's China's spy programme - or an alien craft.'
Joe said: 'best take no chances, shoot it down real fast.'
'But what if there's some life form there, from a distant galaxy?'
'Well, if that's so', laughed Joe, 'we can say it's a fallacy'.
'We could lure it out to London', the general said, instead,
'by using our lasers that beam out infra-red, 
'coz let's face it, chief, the Tories have made a mess of things, 
and if these dudes are from space, they could start pullin' strings.'
Joe thought it through and then agreed it would be so much better
if ET went to number ten; that would relieve the pressure.

A few days later the general called again,
and sat opposite the president in order to explain:
'Yo! Mr President,...