Alienectomy

by Sonia Bhojani

Image credit: Julia Kadel on Unsplash

What a twisted treat it would be

For our bodies to clash grotesquely

Mustn’t think on it too much

Parts of me still long for your touch

Do you hear that primordial heartbeat?

Vibrations deep within, pulsing darkly

I’m calling, I’m signaling for you

Wrap around me and in me too

Production would never exist in me

Procreation, a foreign entity

But I long to create and craft

Through the tunnel, I feel a draft

Alien face but familiar eyes

A part of me and you, disguised

What can I piece together from us?

A stunning freak, born of lust

Forked tongue but with aquiline features

A docile mutant, a refined creature

Nothing our partnership would create

Could ever be beneficial to fate

Chemical reactions in my brain

Kept me from taking this path of pain

On another planet, in another moment

I might have been a different woman

Exotic metal excavating my innards

Temporary coma from the medical wizards

I’ll wake up knowing I’ll never see

Myself distorted by another breed

Misshapen species dwell the earth

I’ve given away my right to birth

Far away, unluckier versions of me

Bless my choices in agony

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Sonia Bhojani

Sonia Bhojani is an NYU film senior who adores writing in all its forms! She has written one dramatic short film and one feature length gore-romance script, as well as many poems and academic papers. She hopes to become a successful author someday and is currently working on her first novel. She has a few poems getting published by the end of 2025, as well as an essay that will be released in an academic journal, which she is over the moon about!