# From get go

*(From the June Monthly Missives chapbook)*

By [Varsity Poetry](https://paragraph.com/@varsitypoetry) · 2024-05-22

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Playpen cribs,

Brawl bars to the

Academic alehouses

Cozy cabin hideaways

Cocktailed country clubs

Underground coffee cabinets

Prepper bunker canned food shelves

Hunters blind ramshackle perch in trees

Who takes the shot, who pours the cup, who

Laps the dance and who drinks it up, butt dials

You twice in the night at 3:50 AM because inside

A fight has begun, an ego storm has brewed and you have been notified and are now on high alert to

the human faction of the enemy within one.

And does this alarm or does this placate

Does this charm or does this stagnate

Will the recipe bloom and will these

Words unite or untie and unbind

Another trail begins to unwind

Blood runs thin and quick in

Heat of argument thicks

Give it relief, or give it

Breath and one last

Step bad, is death

Heaven clouds

Assembling

At a chest

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*Originally published on [Varsity Poetry](https://paragraph.com/@varsitypoetry/from-get-go)*