burning inside and writhing
with their words spoken
during long ghost nights
carried in smoke on the wind
hey hey sang they hey hey
medicine for the longing within
passing white sage silver
on the circle all around
the pounding of our hearts
the bellows of our winds and
the burning inside and
the burning within
7 responses to “burning inside”
I definitely like the feel of this page better. Just out of curiosity, what percentage of your subscribers do you suspect are spammers? Why do you think they were attracted to you? I’m assuming most of them don’t actually read anybody’s posts, but what are they trying to accomplish? I suspect they’re trying to find a way to profit, but there’s no money here, except for e-mail mailing lists I guess, but that’s got to be pennies, not even worth the time. Now, you could catfish the hell out of a desperate starving artist, but aren’t we too smart for that? I’m just spitballing over here. Anyway, love the new site, I’ll try to figure out how to use it.
Thanks. If i were to guess the number of actual readers over at the WordPress.com site, I would number it less than 50 out of 900. Half of those are casual, not hardcore.
There are a number of reasons. Some hope for their dopamine drip feed when someone follows their site or likes their posts. Some are nefarious actors who are relying on my clicks to generate ad revenue and need me to click. Still others are maybe looking for an angle on how to use the data they scrape, even if it is just emails and IP addresses.
I’m probably the last person who would know because I’ve always found both the social and monetization motives hard to comprehend.
I’m very frustrated that WordPress and Jetpack are being hard to integrate just because I am not paying for their walled garden or “services” that are free as long as you accept their walled garden.
Sheesh. I can’t figure it out either. If you can ditch all of that, good for you. I’m interested in the words, and in finding better ways to broadcast our words. I like to think that in the end they might mean something. Actually, they already do.
I’m not surprised about WordPress wanting to keep you in the garden. I would say that’s probably the largest danger of using their service-we’re putting our words into their possession in exchange for ease of communication between ourselves. And possession is nine tenths of . . .
I did a hard reset of their plugin to see if it fixes things. You’ll have to let me know what your experience is like.
“Suddenly he screamed, and it was as though this scream were being tossed from one tree to another, as its echoes returned, then, as though the trees themselves were crowding nearer, huddled together, closing over him . . . pitying . . . Somebody threw a dead dog after him down the ravine.
¿LE GUSTA ESTE JARDÍN
QUE ES SUYO?
¡EVITE QUE SUS HIJOS LO DESTRUYAN!“
-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
Over thinking and the desire to be heard combined! Enough to make the brain implode.
Too late!