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