SHOCKing Sonnets: Ash and the ALIEN

SHOCK’s resident poet Nigel Parkin pens SHOCKing sonnets and horrifying haikus.

A journey into the mind of one of horror cinema’s most sinister characters, as portrayed by one of our greatest Shakespearean actors…

I -Conception

Ash knows they can’t take this thing off Kane’s face.

He knows it must be there for a reason.

Is it taking something? Feeding off him?

Or perhaps pumping something into him?

He makes an incision, not to begin

The process of removal but to test

The fluid that boils and bubbles within.

When it’s released the steaming, hissing fizz

Is music to his ears, as are the cries

Of crew mates desperate to protect the hold.

Confusion! Panic! Oh yes! He begins

To conceive a thought of the terror this

Thing will inspire. Together this creature,

Ash and Kane are conceiving…the future.

II – Birth

It’s time. Ash, expectant, watches Kane feed.

He’s a specimen now, a sacrifice.

Ash knows this. He studies him from across

The table, in all ways his opposite.

The one laughing with a fresh sense of life,

The other still, precise, mechanical,

Waiting and watching with less than human

Fascination as so much is eaten.

He knows this is more than human hunger.

And when the choking begins he observes

With ruthless detachment before rising

To assist…with the birth. And when the thing

Bursts forth, pure, sleek, precise, beautiful, his

Paternal eyes widen with awe, with love.

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