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