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