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