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