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