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