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