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