“Shhht”

 

“Hey! Shhht!”

 

What’s a way to get your crush’s attention?

Walk up all sly, slip on a smile

then drop a pickup line:

“Am I in heaven?

because I see an angel in front of me?”

 

Or do you blow a whistle while

jumping up down

calling out their name

to make them turn around

to the tune of “Brown Eyes”?

 

Are you the kind that

orders a drink and yells,

“‘Mere!”

And try to impress them

with an old joke,

“Why did the chicken cross the road?”

 

Nah.

 

We natives have a way to get your attention.

We call it the “mating call”.

 

It’s a sound that comes naturally

When we see someone we like,

and warn strangers to be wary of it.

 

It sounds like a short electric static

with urgency.

It can make you turn around confusion

and face us.

 

“Shhht!”

“What’s your clans?”

 

So, as a native telling non-natives.

Beware of noises that come from behind,

it can either be a mating call

or just some noise.