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