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The poem offers a humorous description of the author's legacy, which will amount to a convivial atmosphere in a pub where his friends and his own future ghost will meet and drink each other under the table. Gawroński declares that he has left no successor to bore others with reading his poetry out loud. The poem ends with a rousing invitation to his friends to join him in heaven and to create a new 'Kookaburra' (i.e. the Polish Australian cabaret group 'Wesoła Kookaburra') there, to spite all the fools in heaven.
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English translation of the title: My Will and Testament
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There are no composition details but the implication seems to be that the poem was written shortly before Gawroński's death in 1997, marked in the issue by Bogumiła Żongołłowicz's obituary on the adjoining page, and a notice of Gawroński's funeral and expression of condolences from the staff of the Polish Kurier.
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