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