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