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