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