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