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