MICHAEL ERIC DYSON TAKES ON BILL COSBY I have ten pens. None will write. Moralists all. My computer requires no imprimatur. Sitting here white-screened, not caring if I curse or worse. But, dear friends, like my pens, I'm afraid, having been waylaid by gansta words more often even than by Kurds in Cadillacs. Rap music embarrasses me. Even in the Bahamas I sing Gregorian: Te Deum laudamus. while pumping Lydia praying like a Victorian I don't get chlamydia. I really should get a new shirt. This one sports an ink spot as large as a coaster. I look like the poster boy for Luckless Fucks. Last stanza, this. That, I've decided. For it's a take-charge kind of guy am I, a self-made man. I'm the one, the cause be of me -- Cosby's ire at poor blacks lit a fire. "Unless you changed your own diapers, you're not a self-made man," snipers Michael Eric Dyson. OK, so that wasn't the last stanza, something more, a bonanza! needs to be said to all the dead self-made men. This then: Sorry, guys, turns out it was just another bunch of lies. Mike Geary Memphis ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html