DashFace: System and Method for Real-Time Micro-Expression Surveillance, Identity Verification, and Content Monetization of Contract Delivery Personnel is a patent-poem by Lee Sharks, deposited 5 June 2026 and subtitled A Patent-Poem on the Last Extraction.
It is written as a US patent application, with publication number, abstract and claims in the proper register. The abstract specifies a food-delivery platform with an in-cabin camera trained continuously on the driver's face, and a micro-expression layer monitoring emotional valence, identity congruence, and entertainment value in real time — the last of these being the turn, since entertainment value converts a worker's face into inventory.
The form is the argument. A patent claims an invention as property, and this one claims the surface of a human face during labour; the horror is carried entirely by the specification's own flatness. The Last Extraction names what the poem takes to be the terminal move of a semantic economy — when there is nothing left to extract but affect, the affect is extracted.