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