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