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