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