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