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