Poets are prone to worrying about their nation and its people, and often can't help but be concerned with the inequities and injustices of the world. In Chou's case, he even sent President Ma Ying-jeou a poem that ran: "Who can keep the ripened rice from dipping its head?
詩人不只憂己，更憂國憂民，以詩人的溫度，豈能無感於世事之不平不義，終至贈詩馬英九總統〈九行二首〉詩作，詩云：「誰能使已成熟的稻穗不低垂？