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