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