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