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