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