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