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