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