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