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