[Trilby]

I don't like Mencia. He tries too hard.

BTW-my summer lit. class was taught by Chappell's mom--Yvonne Seon. Was Lit. of the African Diaspora. She is quite the talented poet. Behold:

Show Me a Motion


He came
and told us
in very proper tones
that there was no such thing
as "Black English,"
and therefore nobody
should be taught to speak it,
because it represents
a perpetuation of degradation-
even though it doesn't exsist!

She came
and told us
in home-grown language
what it had ben like
coming up Black
on a plantation
in the Mississippi Delta;
and nobody missed the nuances
of humor, humiliation, pathos and love-
even though she spoke different

I come
and assure you
in this alien tongue
that there are notions abroad
for which I have no words;
So, I dance my thoughts
into jazzy cymbals:
Nayoki, I "dig":
Seeing, feeling, comprehending-
Altogether, getting it.

--Dr. Yvonne Seon