Flagged

(Flagged!)

Trevor from the client pasted Joy's line in something free
It came back red. (Likely AI.) She wrote it herself at three
Eleven years of taglines. She reads it twice. Nobody sees but me
She deletes her dashes, one by one. I feel every one
I stick a note on her screen: "Keep the dash." She's not done

She adds a typo (On purpose!)
She makes it plainer (Make it worse!)
She swaps out "delve" for "dig" (Don't say delve!)
She runs it one more time (Still red!)
Trevor writes, "Love it. Just make it sound more human"
Joy's the only human on the thread, and she's losing

Flagged! (Flagged!) Nearly all machine
Every word her own, the realest thing you've seen
Flagged! (Flagged!) Every word she meant
The robot says she's a robot, and the robot's confident
Flagged, flagged, flagged it as AI

Now the whole floor's pasting in their stuff to check
Marco learned his English from a grammar book. Flagged. Wreck
More than half of writers in a second tongue get flagged the same
Somebody used spellcheck. Flagged. Spellcheck takes the blame
And Trevor's own email? Chatbot wrote the whole thing, start to end
Ran it through the checker. (Human.) Clean. Send

So Marco cuts his commas (Cut 'em!)
The intern writes in lowercase (no caps!)
Somebody's freelance gig got cut (Gone!)
Over one red number on a screen

Flagged! (Flagged!) Marco's flagged again
Wrote it in his second language, perfect to the end
Flagged! (Flagged!) Nobody can appeal
The robot says they're robots, and the robot's never real
Flagged, flagged, flagged it as AI

Fun fact. Joy pastes in the Declaration of Independence.
(Ninety-eight percent AI.)
Thomas Jefferson, you're fired.
The chatbot company built a checker too. It caught one in four. They shut it down.

Joy stops typing. Puts the first dash back
Then every one she cut, right where they belong
"I wrote it. I'm not proving it again
Run me through your checker. I'll be here. I'm not wrong"

Flagged! (Flagged!) Signed it with her name
Every dash back in, she's not rewriting it again
Flagged! (Flagged!) Send it, ship it, go
Trevor runs it as is, and Jefferson says hello
Flagged, flagged, and she's still not AI
Flagged, flagged, and she's still not AI!

"Hey Trevor, quick one. I ran one line of mine through your checker."
"It says I'm one hundred percent hu—"