Welcome Back Russia!

For a while I was getting lots

of hits on my blog from Russia,

then, they stopped. I don't know

why they started...maybe because

I was writing about Trump, but how

can I know? 

Now, it seems, they're back,

looking in. It seems impossible

to explain human behavior, usually.

People themselves don't know why

they do things half the time, unless

they're wired pretty tight.

I got a flurry of hits from France, 

once and then no more. Perhaps 

they realized it was improper to 

be interested in an American poet, 

and went back to being French...

I have no way of knowing.

But I like getting hits from Russia,

being myself rather dark and slavic,

having grown up in my own Midwest

gulag of insanity.  And I'm sure they

don't mind that I think USA has 

become the disaster that it is; 

everyone needs their thoughts 

confirmed.

Of course, most of the hits on my 

blog may just be some bot somewhere

that has a sense of humor. If we're going

to have artificial intelligence, that  might

be the best place to start.

So, thanks, Russia, for showing up in

my statistics. Not many comments on

my blog do I see....Yoda? I just write

anyway like throwing balls at a clown's

head in a carnival. It's still fun, even 

when I miss.