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