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