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