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