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