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