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