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