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