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