Slip Slidin' Away

Oliver R.

• Artist Statement

  I wanted to write a piece named after a song, so I decided to write this piece. If you just glance at the piece, it doesn’t make much sense. The stanzas are scattered with some meticulous detail in some very specific places, then go off on a long tangent somewhere else. Scattered, right? But the magic really appears when you look at the whole theme of the poem. It’s about somebody who’s not quite interested in anything in particular, but fluctuates between everything. So the narrator’s scattered, his interests are scattered, and the whole poem’s storyline is scattered! This poem is only subtly deep if you think about it. But it’s a fun, little poem too!

• Creative Statement

  Creativity is something you do when you have ideas and want to share them. It doesn't matter how you share them, it's wonderful no matter what.