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