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