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