Welcome to Day Fourteen of your Essential Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse. We all know the end is coming. Well, you gotta be prepared, and you ain’t gonna have time to memorise a whole bunch of stuff when it happens.
You need a short guide to surviving the rise of the undead, covering you all the way from A to Z… You need … Haiku of the Dead!
Parents of new-borns
Have sleepless nights to deal with
PLUS finding nappies!
(Diapers to my American friends)
A sad truth for me:
Nerds won’t inherit the Earth,
Unless they act too.
Ninjas could do well,
Especially with a sword
And the nimblest feet.
All street lighting off
The nights darker than ever
Bathe in glow of stars
Nature finds a way,
Planet Earth takes a breather.
It needed the break
The new world order
Will rise from zombie ashes
A tender phoenix
No Netflix and chill,
Nights spent bingeing on boxsets.
Do we dare to… talk?
“You wrote this as part of a month-long challenge? What?!”
Throughout April, I will be joining the A to Z Challenge, posting six days a week to cover each letter of the alphabet… even that annoying “X”… For my theme, I have gone down the well-trodden, stereotypical, bit-of-a-cliché -really path of zombie survival tips… in haiku.
With tongue firmly in cheek, I hope you will join me for the month, and beyond 🙂
There are hundreds of blogs participating – over 1700. I will be doing my best to check out as many of these as possible. You can too via this link: http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/p/a-z-challenge-sign-up-list-2016.html
You know, nerd was almost my “N” word. 😜
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It’s a good word, for the finest folk… 🙂
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Oh trust me I “own” my nerdiness! Lol!
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Pardon me, whilst I bathe in the glow of stars… fluffy towels on the warming rack… oversized robe laid out on the chaise… Calgon, take me away…
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All desires catered for at the Zombie Savoy…
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Beware those big tippers… finger tippers, that is (ha-ha-ha, oh yeah, that zombie humor, eh? I kill me)
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I joined a fingertip search once. Literally. A colleague had taken a shortcut to the bowling alley, over the back fence, got the ring on his finger caught on a spike, and the end of his finger came clean off. I found it in some long grass. He didn’t stay to bowl. No stamina, some people
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Knuckled under the pressure eh? Poor fellow.
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Some people just fall apart…
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HaHA! Oh, God forbid we should have to talk to each other Al!
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I know. Can you imagine anything worse?!
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Oh, now you’ve got me singing New Order songs in my head. I supposed that would be a good skill to have to entertain each other with if there is no Netflix. 😀
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Teresa’s acapella karaoke night… there’d be a few takers, I’m sure!
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😀 Well, I’m not inviting hubby to sing since he’s off-tune.
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He can be the security on the door… 🙂
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Hah!
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The new world order and tender phoenix may not depend on zombies!
Good ones. This made me wonder what our fascination with zombies represents ??
Unstoppable horror? Mankind out of control? Yikes!
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That’s one of the great things about zombies – we can imprint on them our fears of the day. Nuclear war, mass consumerism, Generation X, environmentalism… it’s all in there!
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‘The new world order
Will rise from zombie ashes
A tender phoenix’
You do have such a wonderful way with words Mr Lane.
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Why, thank you 🙂
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I’m on the fence here. I am somewhat of a nerd, no real Ninja tendencies but not afraid of the dark and I definitively can talk…
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Well, Never say Never… 🙂
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Noted 🙂
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Nice!
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I haven’t found anyone else writing with your theme. Good job narrowing it down. @DietzShirley from I Just Have to Say
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Thanks, Shirley! 🙂
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This is too funny. What a great theme idea! You might want to collect these and put out a “Zombie Haiku” chapbook. Happy A to Z!
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Thanks Lillian… that is absolutely the plan! Thanks for the encouragement 🙂
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Do we indeed, Al? The art of conversation is going to come in very handy, but it does all depend on who you talk to.
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I’m thinking “re-finding the art of conversation” is going to have to feature again in this list 🙂
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I agree, but not if it’s with a Zombie. Can they talk? I don’t think so, but they can make lots of noise.
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I don’t subscribe to the “zombies are people too” lobby… conversation is for the living!
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If you find anybody else that is living during a Zombie invasion. I’d never try talking to a Zombie. I saw ‘Dead Set’ and it taught me a lot about Zombies as well as Big Brother.
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I watched that too… I don’t think I’ve watched any of the Big Brother series since!
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