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