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