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