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