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