How does Dobyns address the theme of death in the poem, It’s like This?

Beneath the surface of Dobyns's poem is a sense of death. Death is the darkness that soothes the man in this poem. Life, on the other hand, is the rope around his neck. But a rope around the neck implies death by hanging. Even in the concept of life there is death. Life is a completely baffling experience for the man; he cannot grasp its meaning. He has difficulties playing out its games. Everything about life appears absurd or foreign to him. He tries his best but always comes up short, as if he did not exist. The closest he comes to making contact with life is with a stranger who will shortly disappear. The darkness is the only place where the man feels any comfort. That darkness, which can be interpreted as death, wants to embrace him and pull him up and wrap itself around him until the man is within the darkness forever. It would be difficult to interpret this passage as meaning anything less than that the man wants to die.