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