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