Do aliens with super-hearing scare
An audience that may have seen it all?
Can silence be the means to stay alive?
To speak could spell this family's downfall.
Your neck hairs will most surely stand on end,
Like Shaggy in a Scooby-Doo cartoon.
Oh-oh the snack bar's out of Scooby-Snacks;
Look out! It looks like they will get her soon.
One move that's wrong, and they could all be through,
Good gracious, honey, what's a guy to do?
You watch, and I'll just hide here behind you.
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Author Notes
Today's word: dactylology (n.) finger speech.
A Quiet Place is a movie about a family being hunted by monsters with super-hearing. To avoid being found, they mostly use sign language (or dactylology) to communicate.
I haven't actually seen the movie yet (looking forward to doing so on the weekend!), so this is written based on reviews.
My much-treasured Christmas present for 2017 is a book by Paul Anthony Jones: "The cabinet of linguistic curiosities". Each page contains a descriptive story about some obscure or archaic word. It occurred to me it would be a fun exercise to try and write, each day, a poem featuring the "word of the day" from the book.
Thanks for reading.
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