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