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