{"id":133729,"date":"2021-07-23T11:30:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T15:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=133729"},"modified":"2021-07-23T11:30:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T15:30:13","slug":"are-you-lonesome-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/are-you-lonesome-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you lonesome tonight?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a><\/div>
\"\"<\/a><\/div>

By\u00a0Doctor Lester Simon<\/strong><\/p>

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n

1. Are you lonesome tonight? Do you miss me tonight?Are you sorry we drifted apart?<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

2.Yes. I am lonesome tonight. I am lonesome tonight because I feel this country is drifting apart.<\/p>

\"\"<\/a><\/div>
\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n

3.Let me say this upfront, starting with the end. There is a conflation of nonsense, witting and unwitting bad science and politics that has poisoned the well in this country.<\/p>

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

4.The other point I wish to dot is that members of the governing party and members of the opposition party and members of the party for party and members of no party will be upset with me. So what? I get upset with myself too! Often.<\/p>\n

5.My grandmother was upset with me and so anyone else is welcomed. I was late for school and she was sewing a button on my school shirt pocket. Silly me; thinking I was bright because I was warming to algebra. She was taking her time and so I suggested that she could take off the good button instead of wasting time sewing on the other one. Balance the algebraic equation. I can\u2019t recall what happened after.<\/p>

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

6.I am accustomed to not staying in my lane. What do you expect when I am in third form at the Antigua Grammar School and feeling bright and wonderful and big-mannish. Then Master Tim Hector strides in. This big, tall, awesome, strapping man (without a strap) comes into a classroom of virile boys and does what? He teaches us a poem! Poem! Girl stuff. The man serious. It isn\u2019t just that the poem, Creation, is written by a black man, James Weldon Johnson. It is also that it is a poem, a poem in a classroom of virile school boys!<\/p>\n

7.That was the first time in my life I knew I could do anything; not just walk and chew gum but walk and make chewing gum. And walk and talk and run in any lane. Give thanks to Master Tim Hector. May his soul find rest in what he gave to our souls.<\/p>

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n