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