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