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