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