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