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