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