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