Four point six billion
that's a bunch
boy...
big bang
lotsa years there
4,600,000,000
earth has been spinnin'
west to east
around the sun
like all the other planets
except Venus and Uranus
who spin east to west
but nobody will tell me why.
Renegades, I guess
gotta be different....

early atmosphere consisted of
helium
ammonia
hydrogen
methane

no oxygen
no water
no life
no Big Macs

over a lotta time
radioactive material
and increasing pressure
way down deep
produced heat..
melted earth's interior.
it was a mess!
Silicants
(those rocks of silicon and oxygen)
rose up to the surface
formed earth's crust.
it took a while....

Oxygen mixed it up
with hydrogen..
water was invented,
collected in low places
to form oceans.
Rain water dissolved salts
from rocks
carried them to the oceans..
salty water

three point eight billion
first bacteria appeared
no Comet cleanser in sight
two billion
first single cell with nucleus
my daddy
and yours

five hundred million
plants working overtime
and weekends
use photosynthesis
to create enough oxygen
to create atmosphere
so we can breathe..
thank a plant today.

earth has been through the wringer..
earthquakes
continental shifts
colliding platelets
meteor hits
volcanoes
Bill Clinton
Arnold Schwarzenegger movies
millions and billions
of years

now, Man
who appeared yesterday
is afraid of
destroying the earth.
Mother Nature
is cracking up
laughing histerically

Krakatoa
introduced more pollutants
in the air than 3000 times
what man has produced
and there were others
one or two

Mother Nature is not worried.
Man cannot hurt her
Man can only hurt Man.
Mother will simply
shrug her shoulders
and start over, if necessary
create another bacteria
in a million years or so.

Man is an ant
floating down the river
on his back
in an excited state, screaming
"Raise the drawbridge!"

Earth will survive.
We are the ones
with a problem.

Anyway, I don't care.
Scientists claim that the
Andromeda galaxy
will collide with ours
in two billion years
so I ain't buying
anything on credit...