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