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