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