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