• Andrew Tyrie’s appointment prompts the question: why is there only one Competition and Markets Authority (Tyrie to head watchdog, 12 April)?
Jem Whiteley
Oxford
Day: April 12, 2018
The broken lamp
Still life with lamp
What I did not know held me in trust
The grey cloud of unknowing held me fast
I knew reality unsymbolised
I gaped at trees with blossom till it passed
I would have paid no heed to stinging wasps
The strange, lost feeling blinded heart and eyes
The grey cloud of unknowing held me fast
Is this why girls self harm to feel at last?
Inner pain too deep to make us cry
I look at trees with blossom, this shall pass
Numbness,nothingness,the human test
To try our being ,show our hearts can die
The grey cloud of unknowing taught me fast
Who owns life and whose forefinger traced
The universe, the stars, the earth and sky?
I look at trees with blossom,self effaced
Our words are maps,our sentences are lace
That weave us into being, all engrossed
The grey cloud of unknowing held me fast
What I did not know held me in trust
A plague
I asked for a pot of tea but they gave me three tea bags and a kettle.Boil the kettle then drop the tea bags in, she said.I nearly died of surprise.
I asked for bread and butter.They said they only eat cake.Sounds ominous.
I said we have our dinner at midday so we can make love in the evening
Otherwise we might have indigestion.They were impressed.
I never listen to music while I write.In fact I never ever listen to it.I absorb it through my skin.My skin is thin.It’s like a million ears.
She told me to put olive oil on my dry skin.I hope my husband doesn’t add lemon juice.I’m acidic enough.
The nurse told me to undress.But who?
I’m in luck,sherry!
I try to write jokes but so far only 1% are funny.
Like: why not launch Trump instead of a missile? He will be the man who launched a thousand chips.
Invented in Israel and in your laptop now.Intel,intel,wherefore art thou,Intel?
Yes,Lord?
I have got 10 new Commandments.
I am sorry, we have no Tablets here right now.
I’ll send a plague then
I thought you already had.
Those were DIY
OMG Run.
- The Intel 8088 – the first PC CPU from IBM that was designed in Israel, at Intel’s Haifa laboratory.