[Jack Land]

A previous post here at General Talk had to do with some sort of glitch involving Google. I know nothing about it.

There is another glitch at Erato. That’s the hit counter. In the four years I have been here, it’s been obvious that the hit counter is fake news. My introscimible post has racked up 8000 hits since March 25. As W.C. Fields used to say: “A poem should be at least as good as a joke.”

Erato has been around for 25 years and I’m guessing that global bot-nets have learned to home in, those spam-bots incrementing the hit counter. In other words, its not a deliberate plot on the part of Erato.