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