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