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