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