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