I can’t be your acclaimed writer
Right now
I haven’t got any time for it
You see
excerpt from Pessimism
The choices I made
in passing moments
The secrets I kept
impressed me with the tiniest of dents.
The aluminum foil,
the fabric of my self laid bare
excerpt from Aluminum Foil
What shall I say
The genius comes on
But what shall it say
I want it to explode
A thousand fragments
Littering the page
To let them know
That I think harder now
excerpt from Insanity, if you please
Diya Das' method of writing poetry has never been completely organized; she has written in several notebooks at once, on post-it notes and at the computer.
Although, she initially considered a journal format for this anthology, she instead groups this collection into nine sections arranged by topic. The poems in each section are in chronological order. The collection is essentially a poem journal of the past six years of her life.
Cherry doesn't know him from Adam, so is he real or is he fake?
Cherry and Adam are lonely in their new, separate worlds and hook up on social media, but that's when their problems start
