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