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