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