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