Sestina

Written and recited by Esther Israel

Copyright © 2018 Esther Israel

Videography by Michael McDonald Finalized September 18, 2019

Sestina for a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation: Peace House Inc., Plaintiff v. Esther Israel, Defendant. Case No. 180500182 in the Third Judicial District Court of Summit County, Utah.

The allegations brought against her

are implausible. Did

she steal a meal and

also send a dirty email? At Peace

House, did she ask herself, being a

woman, "Why is self-care viewed as insubordination?" She

was a psychotherapist who avoided micromanagers. She

was otherwise a coworker who bit her

tongue and lowered her guard with a

supervisor who twisted her words. Did

she do her job with her therapy clients, to make Peace

House look good? The board members visited and

vanished. She declared it was an April Fool’s joke and

written by the grant writer. That was too easy, she

learned, for the hired guns of Peace

House to miss. And forgetting her

place, not all Jews are rich, she did

not consider people are petty and abundantly flawed. A

Peace House portrayal misattributes the joke as a

sure harm to their funding. They take offense and

none was given, so they reverse subject and straw man. She

left them with no choice so they did

attack via lawsuit with no claim and then fired her.

Smokescreen strategies of Peace

House. Job applicants commit to their mission and a Peace

House vision is imposed on them with a

handbook for employees who are not people in need of her

advocacy. Seeing as salary begets advocates, consent is hired. And

let's not discuss the low salaries and high turnover. She

saw this non-profit domestic corporation as they did.

After her forced administrative leave, why did

she not return to work? What hold does she have to make Peace

House file an ex-parte motion against her? Why would she

force Peace House to silence her? Truth be told, she was a

busy person unmoved by office politics, and

caused others to retaliate against her.

I’m a pro se person perplexed by vexation litigation. I am a

coworker whose colleagues were made scared to communicate and

I am wondering what her clients are wondering about her.