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