Bigfoot Emerges April 2

Bigfoot Emerges After the Fall of Humanity

After the bombs stop falling
After the nuclear winter
After the collapse of civilization

All that remains
Are a few scattered bands 
Of humans
Many are reduced 
To starvation 

Bigfoot who are the descendants 
Of the Neanderthals 
Who lived on 
In the mountain wilderness

Came down
And took pity
On their human cousins.

They soon began
A new, kinder hybrid civilization
Based on the smoldering ruins 
In the ancient era
Which was soon forgotten.

Except in the few university towns
That kept some of the knowledge 
Of the past alive.

Particularly solar and wind power
Which was soon everywhere
As was a rudimentary internet. 

Linking the college towns
The nearby markets 
And the remains 
Of the old central governments.

New countries slowly emerged
New trading routes
And civilization slowly recovered

It took hundreds of years
Amid the new ice age
That settled down 
In most of the world.
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