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