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