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