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