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