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