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