Using Lisp to Explode Mtext?

Using AutoCAD 2010.

I want to make a routine that would use Mtext to create text strings.

So I used the following statements in a Lisp routine.

(DEFUN C:XTEXT ()

(COMMAND "MTEXT" )

;(SETQ S21 (SSGET "L"))

(COMMAND "EXPLODE" "L" "" "" )

)

It appears that I can't get the last selection set in the above statements. I think mtext

breaks the lisp routine. Is there a way to accomplish what I want here?

Thank you,

Why not use DText?

(initdia)
(command "_.mtext" pause pause )
(setq e (entlast))
(command "_.explode" e "")