Timi Olotu was born under unspectacular circumstances, but soon after, he talked his mother into giving him the name ‘Timi’ because it had the perfect unique to epic ratio. In primary school, tragedy struck and a nasty kidnapper man abducted Timi. However, halfway through the kidnapping, the nasty man made the mistake of striking up casual conversation with his abductee. An hour later, before the end of the school day, Timi was back in his class with a compensation fee tucked in his backpack. His parents never knew of his brush with danger and he spent the fee on sweets. Throughout high school, Timi had four different girlfriends – all of them despised him and felt there was nothing desirable about him at all. His shortest of those relationships lasted 2 years and ended when Timi decided to stop writing his girlfriend at the time any more poems. For his Masters in Creative Writing project, legend has it that Timi talked William Shakespeare into coming back from the dead and rewriting the opening soliloquy in Act III of Hamlet. He simply declared at Shakespeare’s grave, ‘To be just OK, or not to be epic… that is the question’.
