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