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