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