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