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