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