"This is the closest I will ever come to writing an autobiography. I
have called it 'Slapstick' because it is grotesque, situational
poetry--like the slapstick film comedies, especially those of Laurel and
Hardy, of long time ago. / It is about how life FEELS like to me."
Kurt Vonnegut,
Slapstick or Lonesome No More.
I especially like the phrase "situational poetry."