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