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