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