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