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