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