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