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