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