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