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