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