robot haiku
@theadriator I'm familiar with senryu more as humorous verse rather than human emotions specifically (Wikipedia backs me up on that, for the fractional value that's worth), so I'm content with calling this senryu -- even if it's not directly about the foibles of humanity in nature, we could entertain the idea that humanity, in its effort to create a haiku-writing robot, can only manage to create one that does so purely in the robot's own language of numbers.
Okay, so haiku are about nature. Senryu have the same 5-7-5 pattern but are about human nature or human emotions.
There's nothing about nature in the poem, so it's not a haiku. And it's intentionally devoid of human emotions, so it's not a senryu.
For the sake of simplicity, I can understand labeling it as a haiku and calling it a damn day, but maybe this kid and his poem are even cooler than at face value because he came up with a new take on haiku that doesn't fit into any existing category.