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