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