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