In Ted Hughes' "In Laughter" (A Crow poem. See it fully here), the first paragraph depicts "colliding" and "crashing" as the kind of events that happen "In laughter":
In laughter
Cars collide and erupt luggage and babies
In laughter
The steamer upends and goes under saluting like a stuntman
In laughter
The nosediving aircraft concludes with a boom
In laughter
People's arms and legs fly off and fly on again
In laughter
The haggard mask on the bed rediscovers its pang
In laughter, in laughter
The meteorite crashes
With extraordinary ill-luck on the pram
[Note that the repeating line "In laughter" is the beginning, not the ending, of each couplet, as evident by Crow's audio version].
In this paragraph, there's one image that I'm not sure how to interpret:
The steamer upends and goes under saluting like a stuntman
"saluting" may simply mean a nautical etiquette flag dipping (and see also this comment), but how do a "saluting" and a "stuntman" are connected to each other as an image of a sinking steamer ship?