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