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