NVN Sunday: PERSUANT
by J.I. Kleinberg
National Transportation Safety Board investigators examine the recovered engine of the DHC-3 Turbine Otter, two weeks after it crashed off Whidbey Island last September.(NTSB) via The Seattle Times, August 24, 2023
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Stories seen in The Seattle Times, August 25, 2023:
“Lawsuits filed over seaplane crash off Whidbey in 2022”
“Maui County sues, claiming utility’s lines sparked blaze”
“Feds file lawsuit against SpaceX over hiring allegations”
“Group sues Kenmore over renter-protection ordinances”
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In keeping with trending news, I’ve decided I’m going to sue God. It has become obvious and inarguable that I bear no responsibility for my own fuckups or for my trespass on others. Someone must be blamed, and God, who seems mostly to do nothing at all and has the deepest of all deep pockets and all the time in the world, is in the frame. I trust that God will surrender to authorities and will be held without bail.
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J.I. Kleinberg is an artist, poet, and freelance writer. Her poetry has appeared in Anti-Heroin Chic, Diagram, The Indianapolis Review, The Madrona Project, Sheila-Na-Gig, and many other print and online journals and anthologies worldwide. She lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA and online at chocolateisaverb.wordpress.com and has chapbooks forthcoming from Bottlecap Press, Ravenna Press, and Milk & Cake Press.