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