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