My aged concession
A chair by the bay window
Just to watch and wait
The round headed kid
Who could never fly a kite
"Good grief", Charlie Brown
We're planting the seeds
Would that hope could be planted
Readily nurtured
"The Yokai Senryu Contest, a poetry competition themed on Japanese 'yokai' folkloric monsters, has come to an end after 20 years...
One reason cited is the difficulty of telling whether entries are written by humans or generated through AI. Generative AI can automatically produce text and images, and it is especially adept at short verse like haiku and senryu..."
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260327/p2a/00m/0op/016000c v @mainichi
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