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Idle men tempt the devil; the devil tempts all others.
The devil tempts all, but the idle tempt the devil.
The devil tempts all other men, but idle men tempt the devil.
The devil tempts all men, but idle men tempt the devil.
The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil.
He devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil.
The devil is always at the elbow of an idle man.
Suffocated
Millie Allstruck suffocated
Her daughter. Millie held
The cushion down. Saw her
Daughter’s arms flap like
Some bird in a trap. Millie
Held her breath for as long
As she could, until the arms
Stopped flapping, until her
Bird was dead. She stood
There holding the cushion
In place waiting for sounds,
Any motion. Millie removed
The cushion, stood gaping,
Holding the cushion, breathing
In deep. Her daughter lay there
Staring into space, a sense of
Peace on her three year old face.
Millie had pushed out the cancer,
Put out the fire. She had her
Daughter back sans pains, sans
The creeping disease, sans
The long nights. She put down
The cushion, placed her daughter’s
Arms across her small chest, closed
The eyes, brushed the hair, thin
And fair. Millie Allstruck stood
And watched and saw sunlight
Touch her daughter’s head as if
The finger of God had touched
And took away. Better to have
Loved and lost than not loved at all,
Millie heard her mother once say.
poem by Terry Collett
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If the devil catch a man idle he'll set him at work.
He that is busy is tempted but by one devil, he that is idle by a legion.