This week’s surreal-absurd sampler is Jeremy Over. Here is part of his intro:

I’m not sure why I persist in associating absurdity with happiness when the concept is rooted in death and when a human induced sixth mass extinction has recently upped the absurdity stakes significantly. But here we are. ‘Now for lunch’ as Ron Padgett writes at the end of his poem ‘The Death Deal’.”—Jeremy Over

Check out the surreal-absurd poems over here at Mercurius.