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