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