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