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