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