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