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