According to the newspaper, he consistently abused his wife.
She is a midget, but she got him drunk,
and then she stood on a chair and strangled him.

The nurses are laughing hysterically.
"It is funny, isn't it?"
In a neighboring bed, a security guard
_____shot multiple times in the stomach
lies moaning, I imagine.

But regrettably Aimee (unscathed)
is still driving her brown bmw
rapidly up the winding road --
talking about her work as a technical writer. _____
"I am working on a manual for a very important new database application."