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