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