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