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