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