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