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