SEAGULL CIRCUS SHOW "Seagulls are thieves. Feed the sparrows they need food too." A sage told me this as I tossed out breadcrumbs at Lake Leman some thirty-six summers ago in Vevey. All the yoga lessons I learned from him on calming the mind has not helped much as I'm now seething mad at the bus driver who came ten minutes late that I missed the Bus #35 connection to Palo Alto for Waverley Writers Poetry Reading on June 1, the last till next September. While fuming angrily by the bus stop a seagull must have sensed the rattle in my mind and dove down near me. Is this Jonathan Livingston Seagull bringing me some heavenly message? He's biting on a giant potato chip snatched away from somewhere. "Hold it right there!" I shouted getting out my camera for photos. A bit embarassed, he dropped his chip and ambled around it in circles, entertaining me for five minutes— stealing the madness from my mind. He glanced straight at me, then flew away. Just before my bus came, I ran over and took a closer look at his chip— but it was just a dried crispy leaf!         — Peter Y. Chou             Mountain View, 6-18-2012