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