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