5 MWE: Let the deposition begin. Your brooding landlord shaves his strip.

finished
nostrils
garden
found
fig
rib
alone

He flattened himself before the explosion. She flattened herself. Bleeding ears. Their ears were bleeding. The blood ran down their necks and onto their shoulders. The blood ran down their backs. Sweat going down your back. A drop of sweat dripping down your back. Cold and clammy hands belonged to the nurse. He was happy to be in a field that needed him. He could find a job in any city. He made a greenhouse out of recycled windows. He had melons and squash. He saws bees in squash blossoms. For lunch, he put a wad of white cheese in a squash blossom and fried it. When he learned of his father's death, he changed his pants twice. When he learned of his fathers deaths, he called the mortician and reserved five coffins. He had five fathers. A father for every decade of his life. He lived near a river. He lived near a forest. He lived near a graveyard. He lived near one of the saddest zoos on the country--one that had lost its accreditation. Most of its animals had been seized from drug dealers. It had become a fad amongst drug dealers to keep animals: komodo dragons, tigers, lions, pythons, civet cats.

She was in a basin with a sick pony. She had a pipe, which she filled with peanut butter and lit. He tripped when he went for a run and fell on his front four teeth. He dove underwater, and a surfboard hit his face, breaking his front four teeth. He tripped going down the stairs and broke his front four teeth. This was not his dream. During the summer, he slept outside on the trampoline. He would break open a 10$ roll of quarters on his trampoline. He would jump until those quarters flew up to him. It was ten degrees below zero, but he still sat on his porch. He wore his warmest clothes and had a blanket over his legs. He had a canister of coffee. He put out fake birds. He made fake black birds and set them outside. Look at that black bird. A mendicant on the mend. Small waves in his fingers told him to stop driving, to pull the car over and allow his head to subside into whatever firesale they had going on the corner. The corner was haunted.

He was a poor architect and a poor builder. He had designed and built a building for his family's animals. They kept two pigs and about twenty goats, so he built a building for all of them out of salvaged bricks, cinderblock, whatever sheets of metal he could find. And then there came a windy week, and then this building fell on all the animals. He finished his ponderous work. His nostrils were ripped open by an enemy. His garden was not productive. He found a clog and failed to unclog it. For the first time in his life, he ate a fig. It did not taste like a dried fig. Its inside looked like the pink inside of the id. He researched if, in fact, one could have one's rib removed. He wanted to get out as much of himself as he could because he was addicted to holding things that had once been inside himself. A piece of his hip had been removed--a ball of bone--and he loved to hold this piece. One of his ribs had been removed, and he loved to hold it. It was an epic with a chimp as its protagonist.