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