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