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