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