The effect of poetry on readership

Well it really worked: perhaps as I had put very little poetry in the blog recently, readership climbed steadily throughout August, reaching a peak on the 6th. On the 7th I put in that poem by Villon, and at once readership went down and has continued to decrease steadily ever since. Much the same has happened many times in the past; you really don't like the stuff do you? Here instead is a pretty picture:

It's me and a girlfriend at the Acropolis.