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