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