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