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