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