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