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