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