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