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