House Shopping

I’ve been trying to buy a house for many years
And something would always happen
Last minute
Like that time when I put money down
On an A-Frame in Bethel Maine
The day when quadruple murder occurred
A few miles away
For the first time in more than two hundred years
Something like this occurred in
The quiet town of Bethel

This was not my first attempt to buy
Once I had made an offer on another home
In Belmont Massachusetts
But never heard back from the owner
Decided not to sell or what I don’t know
And I didn’t check crime statistics in
The area that day
I am sure there were murders but nobody
Thought they happened because of the house
I was buying

At that time Bethel murders hadn’t happened
And I looked completely innocent