6 Years - 99 poems - 1 Incredible Insight 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.