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