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