Length45m
About this audiobook
*It’s Not My Fault I Seen This* is a two-voice Poetic Cinema testimony about memory, survival and the burden of witnessing. Benson speaks from inside the experience—raw, urgent and unfiltered. Vernon returns to the same material with distance, questioning what was memory, fear, metaphor, suspicion and fact. Together, the voices reveal one man at two stages of understanding.
Moving through Washington Heights, street codes, race, immigration, addiction, money, love, illness and psychological pressure, Vernon Snell examines how a neighborhood enters the mind and how a mind attempts to heal itself. This is not a conventional autobiography or poetry collection. It is an artifact of consciousness: part testimony, part self-portrait and part conversation between the person who survived and the person who came back to understand.
The final question belongs to the reader: After entering this body, this block and this history—what would you do?
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Poetry
Length45 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 6, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Copyright and Publication
16Can a Cactus Live in the North?
2Before You Enter
17The Body Remembers Pressure
3Resilient Borderline
18The Human Exhibit
4Smiles and Frustrations
19BUSTED
5My Eyes Belong to Me
20Love Is Sugar, I Am Diabetes
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6CAMERA AND ACTION
21Human Suit Needs No Label
7The Movie of the Making
22THE STORYTELLER AND THE WITNESS
8The Characters I Carried
23Storyteller, Not a Liar
9Grenade and Lemonade
24Wisdom Is the Lock
10THE MARKET AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD
25The Do and the Done
11The Chase
26OUT OF MY BRAIN TO YOUR HARDWARE
12Street Talk 101
27Out of My Brain to Your Hardware
13Bulletproof Glass
28About the Form
14Cooking With Nothing
29About Vernon Snell
15IS THIS FAIR TO ME?
30Source and Collaboration Note
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