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