[Intro]
Dry marker. Meeting coffee. Chairs in a row.
Someone draws one square where the answer should go.

[Verse 1]
Whiteboard boxes crowd the door,
arrows bend where they bent before.
Ben taps his pen, Adrian scans the room,
another approval step goes on the board.
Owner field blank. New lane. Same gap.
One box gets crossed out, then drawn right back.

[Chorus]
Another workflow,
fine, let the arrows go.
But show me what we know,
and who owns the check.
Another workflow,
not a sermon, not a show;
a box can help the work
when someone's name is in it.

[Verse 2]
Mara says, “Leave the last mistake alone.
Nina, show me what repeats.”
Not who missed which day,
not which note came late,
what repeats each time
before the record changes state?
For once, nobody adds a lane.
Now we have something we can test.

[Verse 3]
My corrections log isn't there for blame.
It marks the claim, the source, and where the wording changed.
Some notes arrive checked; some just arrive.
Some wording changes twice before we see it.
The owner field stays blank until something breaks,
then we all count how long correction takes.

[Bridge]
Nina: Status first.
Mara: Owner next.
Nina: Source with the claim.
Mara: Name who has it.
Nina: Fewer boxes.
Mara: Cleaner handoff.
Nina: I log where it changes.
Mara: That's systems work, Nina. Put that in the draft.

[Chorus]
Another workflow,
fine, let the arrows go.
But show us what we know,
and who owns the check.
Another workflow,
less theater, more control;
a box can help the work
when someone has to own it.

[Outro]
The whiteboard loses half its boxes.
One arrow stays. The room stays still.
Mara sets the marker by my log.
My notes go into the draft.

[End]