the sick shit about            
                                          
                             
                our world               
                             
                                          
 is that it's pretty  young as worlds go, 
 there  must  have been  countless worlds 
 here before ours,  on  this  earth,  and 
             what about this:             
                                          
 if i am  a  cat,  twenty  years of  age, 
 i've lived  almost two  percent  of  the 
            time since zero bce           
                                          
 things are  recent. humanity  is recent. 
 it was not, geologically speaking,  such 
 a  very  long time since  they  invented 
                 the wheel                
                    and                   
 i  like the wheel  just  as much  as the 
 next person  but what  about the  earth? 
 the  original  marble.  the   loose  orb