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