''In 1997 Soviet bioweapon faciIity R-1 7
was Iooted by bIack marketeers.''
''The stoIen bioIogicaI agents were never recovered.''
''Today more than a dozen simiIar faciIities remain abandoned
across the former Soviet Union with their inventories
of bioIogicaI agents stiII in pIace.''
''SIBERIA''
Give me your flashIight, quickIy.
Now you won't be tempted to Ieave without me.
Don't worry. We're under the contaminated areas.
Hurry. Come on, hurry.
Wait out here.
Our Chechen friends wiII pay us a haIf miIIion Euros for Pandora's box.
AI-Qaeda wiII pay me a fuII miIIion.
The diseased caII me the ''DeviI.''
I am at war with that sub-human race
who feed off the dead.
They trembIe at the thought of me.
I've kiIIed more of them than I can count.
To the diseased, I am the deviI.
Who eIse but God is Ieft to judge me?
So before you condemn me for any crimes against humanity,
just remember that you wouId not be reading this
if I aIIowed the Diseased,
that subhuman race, to inherit our worId.
I'II start this book at the beginning so you understand everything.
It doesn't reaIIy matter how the worId ended.
The ''Doomsday bug'' got Ioose and everyone started dying.
Have a seat.
AII right, rookie, you finaIIy get your chance. You're in.
I'm in? You're kidding me, right?
No, no. We're short.
Martinez is out, you're the onIy one I got Ieft.
You're in. You've got your shot.
Thank you! Thank you! You won't regret this! Yes!
Don't get too fired up, we onIy got three games Ieft and that's it.
You're a short timer.
Wait untiI you see me pIay.
LioneI.
You brought a ceII phone to the dugout?
One second.
Uh, huh. No, no, no, no.
I'm off the cIock. Get somebody eIse!
No, I'm pIaying tonight!
Listen, I've been waiting aII year for this!
Get somebody eIse.
What?
Okay. I'II be there in twenty minutes. Bye.
Why did I answer that stupid thing!
They said they were going to fire me if I didn't get back to work.
If I wouId have known that was the onIy basebaII game
that I wouId ever pIay, I wouId have quit my job.
I couId've been more than just a benchwarmer.
But I didn't know what was happening untiI it was too Iate.
Oh, come on!
No one did.
Stupid traffic!
I shouIdn't have answered that stupid phone, man.
How stupid can you be, huh?
But no... You had to answer that stupid phone.
You couId have been pIaying tonight
this couId have been your night, you know that!
I'm so stupid. Damn hospitaI.
Everyone I ever knew is gone and now I'm aIone.
But enough about that, you want to know who I am.
My name is LioneI Verney and today is Armageddon.
My time is short so I'm Ieaving this brief record
to any remaining human beings
who stiII might exist somewhere in the worId.
To you, I Ieave the history of the Iast man.
The emergency room is fuII, we canşt take these peopIe.
You guys are stage one. AII stage one over here.
Işm sorry, sir. You canşt go.
PIease wait over here.
Who are you with?
You are stage two.
Let me see you, kid.
Ok, take this young man now.
Işm sorry madam, you have to wait.
Işm sorry, you have to wait. AII stage one has to wait.
Someone pIease heIp her, pIease.
I worked at the hospitaI
but I wasn't a doctor or an R.N. or anything.
I was a ''C.N.A.'' That means I cIeaned up after patients
but I was certified because I handIed a Iot of infectious human waste.
I know, too much information.
But that job paid the biIIs untiI I got my big break pIaying basebaII.
PIease, Doctor!
You're going to have to see an R.N.
I've been waiting six hours!
Listen, I'm an orderIy! I just cIean stuff up, okay? Okay!
It is a compIete zoo out there.
They aImost spiIIed my coffee Iike forty times!
FIoor?
So what's up?
I see you didn't get out of here either, huh?
No, they caIIed me back and you know what?
I was pIaying tonight.
So what's up?
Not sure.
There was maybe ifty peopIe in the cIinic
when I got in today.
Now there's aImost three hundred.
What the heII is it?
Beats me. I've got a dozen caIIs out
and aII the nurses are screaming for answers.
Gosh, you have reaIIy pretty eyes, you know that?
You're going to have to do a Iot better than that, Romeo.
It's your floor.
Hey, Iisten, umm... We're stiII on for tonight, huh?
Getting invoIved with your co-workers is a risky thing for your career.
What career? I shouId be pIaying basebaII!
Hey! I though you were pIaying basebaII tonight?
What are you, kidding me?
Give me that.
Hey Doc, that wasn't very funny.
Shut up and put a damn mask on, now!
What the heII is up with the Doc?
Keep an extra mask and gIoves in your pockets,
it's some kind of contagion.
Listen, I just taIked to Eva right now and nobody knows...
LioneI, these patients are dying, fast. It's something bad.
Don't scratch; don't touch your face;
and don't put anything in your mouth untiI you're off the floor and scrubbed.
We don't even know if it's airborne, so put that mask on, now.
And get this patient prepped for the morgue.
Where is your mask?
I got it right here.
The bedding, everything goes in with the body.
And don't worry about the paperwork, Admin is handIing it aII downstairs.
Okay.
Your gIoves?
I don't got any.
Where are your gIoves?
You don't have any gIoves? Ugh.
PuII your head out, wiII you?
I need everyone functioning here.
I'm here. One hundred percent, okay?
No you're not. Now get that deceased patient downstairs.
This is what I'm taIking about!
That's it, I'm out of here.
He doesn't bite!
Hey, I've got another one here for you.
WeII there's no more room at the inn.
You know what, just Ieave them right there for now.
I though Iike onIy six peopIe died.
Where did aII these bodies come from?
Six?. You want to know where they come from?
Pediatrics, eight years oId.
And the E.R., and this one was just dropped off by the E.M.T.'s.
WeII, here's more paperwork.
Great. I'm going to be here untiI Thursday.
In just three days, we were down to a skeIeton crew
with every bed in the hospitaI fiIIed.
Everyone eIse ran away or was in one of those beds.
Everyone except the core staff.
I stayed too but not because I was aII that dedicated,
I just didn't understand what the heII was going on yet.
Where's Chef?.
I don't know but we've got pIenty of coffee.
I just want to go home, eat some ice cream and sIeep for a week.
I think I've got ice cream at my pIace.
Hmm... ChocoIate?
Yeah, I think so.
But if not, you couId aIways put your cIothes back on and go home.
No one gets me naked... ...without a ring, paI.
That is so... so... Un-constitutionaI.
That's how I fiIter out the Iosers.
I see not everyone Ieft. Good.
A IittIe Chicken Pox outbreak isn't going to make me run home crying.
It's Pox.
Whatever.
And it's not just SmaII Pox - this strain isn't responding
to conventionaI treatments.
Nothing works on it.
Wait. I've been here for three days and you're teIIing me nothing works?
I couId have been pIaying basebaII!
Just make the patients as comfortabIe as possibIe.
This is something new.
Pediatrics aIready Iost three nurses to this so don't think
we're not aII at risk.
It may not be airborne but you can get it from any one you touch.
Understand?
Back upstairs and on the cIock in five?
No.
What?
You come into direct contact with aII the dead bodies in the hospitaI.
I wear gIoves, okay?
What?
Stupid Chicken Pox!
You did this!
Lady! Lady! Get off him! Everything's going to be okay!
She, she must have just gone over...
I didn't see that coming.
It Iooks Iike once fever cooks the brain,
you can add vioIent dementia to the Iist of symptoms.
Cover her up.
Huh?
She's dead.
Move!
What happened here?
We got word back tonight from C.D.C.
And?
It Iooks Iike this bug has
got a ninety-nine point nine percent mortaIity rate.
Ninety-nine point nine percent mortaIity rate?
That can't be! I've got ten patients in the cIinic
that have Iasted over forty-eight hours now.
I know they're wrong!
And what about the guy down the haII that can stiII see,
he's got
-the pox scars and everything. -Genetic Iuck of the draw.
That's aII.
There might even be someone out there
that's immune to this thing
but it's going to be a one in a biIIion case.
You know what?
I'm not a doctor or an R.N., I reaIIy do not need to be here, okay.
You can't hide from this.
Sooner or Iater, we're aII going to get this.
It's just a matter of time.
I didn't stay at the hospitaI for humanitarian reasons,
I just wanted to be around Eva.
The whoIe worId was dying from pIague
but she was stiII there heIping peopIe to the end.
Now, I know I feII in Iove with her during that time.
Eva was an angeI in my eyes.
The onIy reaI hero I ever knew, weII, besides Dr. Adrian.
I'm not just ideaIizing her, she reaIIy cared about peopIe,
peopIe she didn't even know.
Once Dr. Adrian died, I was so out of there.
I knew there wasn't any hope at the hospitaI anymore.
But I stayed anyway, I stayed to be with Eva.
Doctor! Are you okay?
No, I'm not okay!
What's going on?
The NationaI Guard came
and took aII the bodies away - in garbage trucks!
How disgracefuI! Garbage trucks!
The NationaI Guard?
Yes. They're burning them outside of town, Iike garbage!
WeII this is Doctor Adrian.
They're going to burn him Iike garbage too, beIieve me.
Put him outside with the others.
But it's Doctor Adrian!
I said put him outside!
HaIt! Do not move!
No, no! I work here, I work here!
Inside! Get back inside Back inside!
As best as I can remember from the news,
it was a bioIogicaI weapon that the Soviets deveIoped in the 1980's.
It was the ''Doomsday Bug'' with a sixty-six day incubation period
so it spread to everyone, everywhere before anyone even knew it existed.
Everyone aIready had it, even the Jihadists who reIeased it.
That's how the whoIe worId ended in just three weeks,
if it reaIIy matters to anyone.
It was obvious the hospitaI was history.
AII I wanted to do was take Eva with me
and get far away from everything diseased.
-Doctor Adrian is dead. -No...
My whoIe famiIy Iives up in Phoenix.
I need you to come with me, Eva.
No. It's too Iate. I've got it.
I want you to come with me.
No! Don't touch me! I'm infected!
But after I found out that Eva got it, everything feII apart.
I feII apart.
The end of the worId got very reaI for me.
But I never toId her how I feIt.
I wish that she wouId have Iived Iong enough
so I couId have toId her how much I Ioved her,
so I didn't have to carry those feeIings
around with me to this day.
Eva!
I never found out whatever happened to Eva after she disappeared.
I stiII have nightmares of running endIessIy
through the hospitaI Iooking for her
but never finding her.
-Doctor... Doctor... -HeIp me, heIp me...
Doctor, Iisten...
Who's there?
It's LioneI Verney.
Oh, LioneI...
Have you seen Eva?
Maybe they took her to, to the pit.
I don't know for sure, I can't see!
Is there any records or anything?
Doctor... Doctor...
Doctor...
Adam? Listen, have you seen Eva?
She's dead. You're next...
You're Iying. You're Iying!
Don't Iet him Ieave! He can see! He can see! Verney!
Stop foIIowing me!
The Diseased chased me for a few bIocks before I Iost them.
I thought I was going to die just Iike everybody eIse
but I was immune.
I had no idea what happened to the outside worId.
The hospitaI I was Iiving in was Iike a cocoon.
You see, not aII of the Diseased were bIind.
I saw one that couId stiII see.
He took down a group of three bIind Diseased
and cut one of them into pieces before he couId even scream.
It's okay, it's okay. I can heIp you.
-I can see! -HeIp me! HeIp me!
Don't Iet the Butcher get me!
PIease don't Iet the Butcher get me!
Come on, which way?
I heIped one of the Diseased home
before he got kiIIed too, I was so stupid.
Thank you... Thank you... PIease, take me inside, take me inside.
He brought me to the storefront
where he was Iiving with a group of other Diseased who were aII bIind.
The keys are in my pocket. Let me in, pIease Iet me inside!
No way, I'm not going in there...
I'm sorry.
He can see! Get him! Get him in there!
Let me go! Damn it, you're infecting me!
Get him! Eat him! Eat him!
They cracked me over the head and dragged me into their fiIthy nest.
They were aII cannibaIs.
They turned to feeding off the corpses of the ones
who died from starvation after the food stopped coming into the city.
They must have finished off the cats and dogs first.
I haven't seen any roaming animaIs since then,
not even rats or pigeons.
Take his pants and shoes so he can't get away.
Where is he! Where is he!
Where is he! I'II kiII him!
No one touches him! He can see!
Where is he!
He can see? He can see...
I didn't kiII your brother. Why wouId I bring him here?
Who wiII be Ieft if we continue to feed on one another?
We need him.
Robert's flesh wiII spoiI soon. Then we wiII starve.
So tonight, you wiII take us to a supermarket.
If you refuse, you wiII be our onIy food.
AII right! AII right, I'II take you.
That's right you wiII!
I'II take you right now.
They were sick and needed heIp but aII I wanted to do was kiII them.
I mean, I feIt guiIty for my Iack of sensitivity but I feIt nothing
but revuIsion for them.
It made me sick to even Iook at them,
smeII them or even Iisten to the phIegm rattIe in their voices.
But deep inside, I knew there wasn't anything human Ieft in them.
He's taking us to the burning pIace!
-Shut up! There's no smoke! -He's taking us to the pit!
He's taking us to the pit!
It's a trap! It's a trap!
Once the sun came up, the stink rose with the temperature.
The popuIation of Tucson before the pIague was about a miIIion peopIe.
I don't know how many corpses the NationaI Guard carted out of town
but it smeIIed Iike the most bIasphemous stench
that ever soiIed my sinuses.
In the dayIight, I saw how bad it was.
I don't know how many corpses
were cIustered beside any source of water.
Some feII over and sprayed their guts up right there on the spot,
wherever they feII over.
Dying from the pIague was a pretty gruesome way to go.
Pain aII the way to the end.
The stench was so suffocating,
I ran back to the basebaII stadium
where I knew the air was stiII cIean and smeIIed Iike fresh grass.
BasebaII season was over, permanentIy.
At Ieast the terrorists who did this died
the same gruesome death as the human race.
I thought I was the Iast Iiving creature
Ieft aIive in the whoIe city.
I don't know why but I was suddenIy overcome
with cIaustrophobia and had to Ieave that stadium.
And that's when Ray found me
outside of the Tucson EIectric Park in my underwear,
standing there Iike some crazy person.
I didn't know it then but he thought
I was diseased and just stopped to put me down with his 12 gage.
Excuse me, you haven't seen any women around here IateIy, have you?
No, I'm serious.
No, I haven't.
What's your story?
I thought I had the whoIe city to myseIf.
WeII, except for those roving gangs of crazies that come out at night.
Say, you're not crazy and messed up, are you?
Oh, no.
WeII, that's good.
It's getting kind of Iate.
Are you going to be okay out here by yourseIf tonight?
I didn't think so. Get in.
I'm LioneI.
I'm Ray. ActuaIIy, caII me, ''Titanicus''.
Ray, he taught me everything I know.
This is just crazy, isn't it?
I was up in the sticks when aII this went down.
But I figured, you know what,
just make it back to civiIization and everything wiII be aII right.
WeII, I get back to town about a week ago and I'm Iike, whoa!
TotaI apocaIypso.
Where did everybody go?
What, did you just get here?
Funny story.
The other day, I'm waIking down Forth Avenue, right?
And they're everywhere.
And I see a group of them aII over this poor guy.
I mean they're on him Iike he's a piece of sushi.
I start waIking over and I feeI this hand on my shouIder.
So I turn around and it's one of those ''things'', he couId see me.
I mean he couIdn't see as weII as you
or I do but he couId see weII enough to know that I wasn't infected.
So they got you?
Huh? No! I puIIed out my 45, put it to the bastard's head
and bIew his brains out aII over the crowd.
And it was that moment I reaIized, I'm Iooking at this aII wrong.
I need to see it as the gIass haIf-fuII instead of haIf-empty.
You know what I mean
Not reaIIy.
They're psychos, right?
So I'm fighting fire ''with fire'' - it's ''psychoIogicaI'' warfare.
...PsychoIogicaI warfare.
Is this where you Iive?
No, we ran out of gas.
What do we do now?
We go find another car.
This is Iike the forth car I've had this week.
I change cars Iike I change my underwear. Come on.
Shut the door.
So this is your pIace?
I thought that you'd get a Iarge estate up in the foothiIIs.
I'm trying not to draw any more attention to myseIf than necessary.
So what's up with the shirt?
You want to put some pants on?
Got any extra cIothes?
FoIIow me.
This is the downtown war room.
Don't touch anything, okay?
I've got my own IittIe ''Feng Shui'' thing going on in here,
so I don't trip over stuff in the middIe of the night.
Here are the cIothes. Take your pick.
It's aII green.
Yeah, you're in a miIitary surpIus store.
I hate green.
It Iooks Iike he's going to need some new underwear too.
Got any shoes?
Sorry, no shoes. We've onIy got boots.
We've got Iots and Iots of boots.
Oh, crap.
Did you hear that?
We're never going to get any sIeep
with that going on outside, are we?
We own the day but they own the night.
Not exactIy.
Wait, wait!
You're not just going to go out there and start shooting peopIe, are you?
The moment these things first tasted human flesh,
that's when they crossed the Iine and as far as I'm concerned,
they've resigned from the human race.
They're not peopIe anymore, Jack.
They're cannibaIistic, uh... Mutants.
Look at them!
Stop it!
Get your hands off me!
They're just peopIe.
They're sick
-and they need our heIp! -Oh, stop it.
The twenty-first century's over, Jack.
So there's no one Ieft to jerk off with poIiticaI correctness.
This is year one and it's us against them.
And if we want to survive this thing,
there's two things we reaIIy don't need right now.
''A'' we don't need any Gays and hoIy crap,
especiaIIy no Lesbians, they wouId be totaIIy, umm,
...superfluous trying to re-popuIate a new worId!
I'm not done!
And ''C'' we don't need
any IiberaI stupidity trying to make us feeI better about doing
whatever it is we have to do to survive.
Yeah, yeah. I know, I know.
So stop trying to make me feeI guiIty
about bIowing the heads off a few Iousy mutants, aII right!
You know what your probIem is?
You're just not as ''weII-adjusted'' as I am.
We'II get you, DeviI!
Ray! Ray, where are you?
What the heII do you think you're doing!
WeII, there is a IittIe too much ''yin- yang''
in here right now
and what we need is a IittIe ''zen''.
How many peopIe have you kiIIed?
Forty-five caIiber, 191 1 automatic.
Read that.
How many peopIe have you kiIIed!
Here it is. M-16 assauIt rifle.
Keep this on you at aII times.
How many peopIe have you kiIIed!
I don't know, forty-five, sixty.
I reaIIy wasn't keeping score.
Do you reaIize that they caII you the ''DeviI''?
Yeah, it's part of that ''psychoIogicaI warfare'' thing
I was teIIing you about.
Why does this have to be about war, huh?
Why can't we go out and heIp those peopIe?
Oh, here it is. Sun Tzu.
The ''Art of War''.
I expect you to read this one,
cover to cover by the end of the day tomorrow.
Now, you're tired and I need some quaIity aIone time.
He's a freaking nut-case.
And this... Is your new home.
SIeep tight, Jack.
That crazy bastard.
So, you read Sun Tzu. Any questions?
Why did you hack up my hair!
Just trying to diaI down that
''ViIIage PeopIe'' Iook you got going on there.
Don't you ever, ever touch me again!
Or what? You'II shave my Iegs?
Don't make such a big deaI about it, Jack.
My name is not Jack! It's LioneI!
LioneI Verney!
I'II teII you what, if we ever do run into any women,
pIease Iet me do aII the taIking.
Is that what you're doing here?
You're trying to pick up women!
I know what I'm doing here, what are you doing here?
Don't be such a NeanderthaI!
ActuaIIy, you're the NeanderthaI.
You know, a month ago, they wouId have medicated you.
But now, this worId is a kook's paradise
and I'm stuck in it with you!
I'm no kook, Jack.
I'm earth's Iast, best and onIy hope.
And who are you, the mutant's best hope?
You know what, I'm going back down.
History Iesson, Jack.
We onIy became the dominant species
because we made the NeanderthaI extinct
but you don't feeI too bad about that, do you?
The exact same thing is happening right now,
onIy you're dropping the baII on the entire human race.
Better get with the program, Jack,
or you're going to be just as extinct as the NeanderthaIs, buddy.
Ray and I reaIIy started to get on each other's nerves
untiI things went to bIows by the third day.
I was keeping track.
You were keeping track? Of what?
How many shopping days Ieft untiI Christmas?
You know what?
That is the Iast wise crack
I'm going to take from a ''Neo-Con'' NeanderthaI!
Or you'II do what? You stupid, LiberaI nut sack!
You made me do that.
Nice shot.
You're such an idiot, you know that?
Get up. Get up!
I can't.
Why?
I... I don't know.
Your ribs?
Uh, yeah.
Don't try anything stupid, do you understand?
You're infected!
So now you know...
Why the heII didn't you teII me?
Why do you think I brought you here?
You're such an idiot.
We've onIy got a coupIe of days for me
to teach you everything I know.
A coupIe of days? You have hours to Iive.
Are you sure about that?
I've seen a hundred of these peopIe.
I work in the medicaI fieId, I shouId know.
Get me my vodka.
I can't beIieve you.
Go get me my vodka.
I can't beIieve you.
And read the book, LioneI!
What?
Swear to me you'II read the book!
Yeah, whatever.
The next day, I buried Ray in the park
under the shade of the paIm trees.
Okay I'II read the book. Now shut up!
Once he knew he had the pIague,
he saved the human race the onIy way he had Ieft.
I stiII miss him.
Ray stockpiIed everything but food.
After three days without eating,
I was so hungry, hungry enough to go Iook for anything I couId find.
The stores were aII picked cIean,
so I started Iooking inside deserted apartments and buiIdings.
I found food but I aImost didn't make it out of there aIive.
Someone's here! They're steaIing our food!
OnIy the municipaI power grid was powered
by the big nucIear power pIant out in the desert.
Everything eIse was fed from the power pIants in town.
The street Iights stiII worked untiI the buIbs burned out.
But I was going to be Iiving in the dark
once the generator ran out of gas.
There were no more washing machines.
When I needed cIean cIothes, I just puIIed something off the rack.
I smeIIed a IittIe better
but I stiII didn't have any food in my stomach.
I couIdn't just Iay there and starve
when I knew there was food out there waiting for me.
The onIy thing standing between me
and starvation were those Diseased peopIe.
A Iot of them.
I beat myseIf up because I couId have taken Ray's gun with me.
I couId have been eating that night, if I knew how to use it.
Everyone is afraid of guns, even the Diseased,
so I sat up aII night, Iearning how to use that pistoI.
You want to steaI our food?
Not aII of it. Anything but dog food.
Let me show you what we do to thieves.
Can you see this?
We have guns too.
Drop it! Drop it! I wiII shoot you!
Now you can eat them. Don't try anything stupid.
We know who you are!
We know where you Iive!
Those diseased were mostIy bIind.
They had no chance against me.
The Diseased knew where
I Iived so they burned me out the very next day.
I knew they mistook me for Ray
because someone painted ''burn the deviI'' on my door.
Ray must have made a Iot of enemies.
I wandered the city Iooking for a car with keys stiII in the ignition.
I wanted to drive up to Phoenix where my parents Iived to find out
if they survived too.
If wasn't affected by the pIague,
maybe they weren't as weII,
if it was a matter of strong genes.
I aIso want to Ieave the stench of death
hanging over Tucson behind me.
I foIIowed the smoke rising in the distance to the pit
where the NationaI Guard were stationed.
If anyone was stiII aIive, I thought it wouId be them.
But aII I found were bodies, aII dead from pIague.
AImost a miIIion bodies were cremated in hundreds of garbage containers.
Just the month before,
I was sitting behind aII of them in traffic,
cursing at them for driving sIow in the fast Iane.
I didn't know what I wouId find up in Phoenix
so I armed myseIf with a few grenades
and an automatic rifle.
The body armor wasn't a bad idea either.
For aII I knew, Phoenix was ten times more dangerous than Tucson.
I stayed off the interstate.
I thought it was probabIy jammed with cars and roadbIocks,
so I raced up the back roads.
HaIf way up there, Phoenix was gone in a thermonucIear flash,
aIong with my famiIy.
Oh, my God. My God.
My God. Phoenix...
The bIast was so strong, even 50 miIes or so away,
it flipped my Hummer aII the way over.
I wouIdn't have survived if I was driving anything smaIIer.
The suspension was totaIIed and the engine quit working.
Phoenix was gone,
so I had to make the Iong waIk back to Tucson on foot.
I knew it wasn't a good idea to waIk through nucIear faIIout
but neither was sitting in the Hummer breathing it in aII day.
If my famiIy wasn't aIready dead, I'm sure they were now.
Who the heII wouId do something Iike that?
What the heII happened? It was a mystery.
I must have waIked about ten miIes
before I passed through the aircraft graveyard
where they stored aII of the mothbaIIed jets in the desert.
I wish I knew how to fly,
I couId have just cIimbed in and flown any one of them anywhere.
Maybe there were survivors just Iike me in Mexico or Canada?
I had just seen a nucIear bIast and Iived,
one of mankind's greatest scientific achievements
and there I was waIking under the shadows of the giants
that couId fly around the worId as fast as a buIIet
and they just sit here, Iike dinosaurs.
I wondered if these jumbo jets wouId be
just as impressive as the pyramids in a thousand years,
now that mankind has been thrown back into the stone age.
A desert fuII of Dinosaurs.
Where there's a corpse, there were aIways car keys.
And sometimes, even a fuII tank of gas.
The dead didn't bother me anymore,
it was the Diseased who weren't dead yet,
Iurking in every shadow, that bothered me.
It's amazing what you can get used to.
When I got back into the foothiIIs,
I decided to stop and check out one of those big fancy houses
that I aIways wondered about,
just to see for myseIf how the other haIf Iived.