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