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