A Warning Take By Me details P.J. Marron’s transition from a teenager into an adult. A clean-cut Catholic boy fresh out of high school in 2008, this poetry collection details his attempt to purify himself over the ensuing seven years by eliminating the ego. Riding a consistent high from caffeine, alcohol, or marijuana, Marron learns a hard lesson about destroying self-interest in an intelligent mammal. He emerges a man in the spring of 2015 physically intact, brutally scarred on the inside by his own hand, but a man nonetheless. A Warning Take By Me is a startling self-documentation on a young human male’s coming of age in a society observing the transition between analog and digital, the shadow of third-wave feminism, and life in middle class North America after the September 11th attacks.