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