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