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