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