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four syllables 2010 Janet Kuypers (poetry converted to prose)     Tuesday nights were regular working nights for me, and in the winter time the ice cream parlor never had any business. so i worked with vince, a regular guy, like me, well, regular, like me, not like me because he’s a guy, because i’m a woman, you know. wait, so anyway, i’d work with vince and john, and john was like a marine wanna-be, a real tough guy that obsessed over his body. not a real intellect. harmless, funny in his machismo, i guess.     so once we were sitting around, i’m talking to john and john’s got his back to vince, talking to me, and i must have made some sort of cut-down to john, and i knew he wouldn’t understand what i said, but then he looked at me and he said, “elaborate.” and vince and i just burst out laughing, and i said, “ooh, johnny learned a new word at school today,” and vince was holding up four fingers and mouthing, “four! four syllables!” john never saw vince. vince and i were both so impressed, john had a fifty cent word. we were laughing so hard. Also look for thie writing in the poetry section of the Janet Kuypers poetry vaults, to see this writing with different line breaks. Copyright © 2010 Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.