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