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