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