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