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