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