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