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