I am not a robot just because I understand how em dashes and Oxford commas work—the woods are not lovely, dark, and deep; “the woods are lovely, dark and deep” and poets with promises to keep know when they are and aren’t connecting and do not welcome implied editing by assuming a punctuation is or isn’t there and do not enjoy the suggestion that whether they are ems, ens, ‘phens, asterisms, or interrobangs that they were generated as statistical probable outputs of prompts and not the eclectic, elegant, and nuanced clever creations of characters that they are. I will ampersand with ample ands & there is simply no way I will allow the AI-whisperers to tell me it didn’t happen just because they couldn’t read it—just because they couldn’t believe it—just because they didn’t receive it.