milkman and paper boy hours

as a child,

or teen it's easy to sleep

in

until eleven or noon.

but as we age

we train

ourselves to get up

when the alarm

goes off.

we have jobs, so many

things to do.

there's a bus

to catch,

kids to put off to school,

and yet strangely when

that part

of life has ended,

we get up even earlier.

we're up

at the crack dawn,

at five in the morning,

putting coffee on.

it's

milkman

and paperboy hours.

we're proud

of our early risings,

telling everyone that news.