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