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