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