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