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