Joe woke up one morning and looked for his wife, but his wife wasn’t there.
She had awakened and was preparing breakfast in the kitchen.
Joe was afraid he might spoil ‘the moment’ by getting up, so he called his little boy and sent this note to his wife:
THE TENT POLE IS UP,
THE CANVAS IS SPREAD,
THE HELL WITH BREAKFAST,
COME BACK TO BED.
The wife answered the note and sent it back by the boy. It read:
TAKE THE TENT POLE DOWN
PUT THE CANVAS AWAY
THE MONKEY HAD A HEMORRHAGE
NO CIRCUS TODAY.
So he sent another note down. It read:
THE TENT POLE’S STILL UP
AND THE CANVAS STILL SPREAD ...