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