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