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