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