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