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