The Ecphorizer

Turn the searchlight inward, Mahatma Ghandi said.
But who the hell has spotlights
in the middle of his head?

The kingdom is within you,
said Jesus and Tolstoy.
But if the kingdom causes cancer
it might be best not to annoy.

I've traveled far in Concord,
wrote the naturalist Thoreau.
But how the hell he did it
is more than I can know.

Free at last, free at last,
said Martin Luther King.
But freedom too is mental --
at least I've learned one thing.