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