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