early risers

no longer needing
beauty sleep
older people
get up early.
they even brag
to everyone about
how early it is
when they get up.
I get up at five,
they say,
and another will
top that with
four thirty, I get
up every morning
at four thirty
before the paper
even arrives,
before the moon
is out of the sky,
before almost
everyone, they'll
say, then sit back
smugly, yawning
with a coffee
in their hand
at ten a.m.