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