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