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