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