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