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