The Department Meeting

As we did the month preceding This the next department meeting Time and time without a reason To be present or to listen For there’s nothing on the floor Beneath us different than before It was the last time that we met As everybody knows and yet Again we sit around the table Top our seats but still unable To understand why we should read Another memo from the Dean Of students who have never met ‘em Or her or maybe better, them For whom the Chair is working under Standing in the room, we wonder How’d it ever get to this Friday morning’s foolishness Of faculty who should know better Than to debate what doesn’t matter That they’ll only misconstrue The points they’re missing when they do Interrupt each other speaking Words better spent in classrooms teaching