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