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