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