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