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