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