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