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“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it. I say, Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I’ll be ready.”

Charles Bukowski

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The speaker thinks about death often and even talks to it in their mind, asking when it will come for them. They are not afraid and are prepared for it.

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Acceptance Dark humor Death Existentialism Introspection Life and death Mortality Philosophy Poetic
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