This is a meeting no one likes.
Your work has come to nothing.
Your teaching helps no one.
You have not moved us forward.
We have a file of evidence.
All committees have decided.
You may read the file.

This is our procedure.
Our committees have read your file.
Who are you to your co-authors?
Did you ever meet?
Grants? None. We can read.
There's not enough to read.
Your work has come to nothing.

Once you have emptied yourself
from your office,
all the pages of your file
will be scattered on the lawn.
The heels of librarians will
tear your publications.
Students will watch.

Your classes will not meet again.

Your work has come to nothing.

This is a meeting no one likes.