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