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