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