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