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