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