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