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