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