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