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