there was a forest

east of here, before the leaf blight came along. Now there is the ruin of a forest....some sticks still standing, but mostly just logs moldering on the ground....some mutant brush has come up, strange looking with the purple foliage that works in the new atmosphere, with the new chemical balance of the soil....but there aren't any animals out there anymore....all that moves are the creeping carpets of stray nanocultures, the aborted "fixes" they tried to plug the holes in the ecosystem with back when there was still a government that thought it could do things. That's all in the past now.....as long as I have been here we've had to rely on suits and masks to breath and walk around....we need powercells and smart materials to give us the energy to stay alive, to fight the toxins.....the sky is still blue...sort of....the river still flows....but it's not exactly water that goes downstream anymore....the old highways are buckled and cracked, the old towns abandoned.....we cyborgs wander endlessly and aimlessly ......we scavenge what we can from the leavings of the old human race, but it's a losing battle......to reproduce would be immoral.....what monster would bring a child into this world?