Cape Jealous
Cape Jealous the cliff-top location,
The wealthy resort with a span
Of beach for a summer vacation
Where she lived ten years with her man.
The husband began so committed
And she always loved him and cared,
One disc they played most, for it fitted;
The Windmills Of Your Mind they shared.
Cape Jealous for those prone to settle,
Cape Jealous to wipe away tears
From people who just want to get all
The best out of middle-aged years.
But that married moment she dreaded
Occurred as a new autumn neared,
She learned of the woman he'd bedded
From lipstick on his collar smeared.
She had her own way of responding,
A shock that immense tends to stun,
The news of his secretive bonding
Made her go and buy a small gun.
One day he went out so she waited,
With weapon concealed in a drawer
She weighed up the marriage she hated,
Deciding to take lies no more.
She washed her hair and made a turban
With towel tightly-tied, looking nice;
He came home and noticed a bourbon
She'd made him all sparkling with ice.
You may not accept or believe it,
She couldn't be bothered to say
'Goodbye' so she let him receive it:
The bullet that blew him away.
It seemed like a b-movie drama
But no matinée here explained
The living room's grim panorama;
Dark blood on the carpet that stained.
She waited till sirens came blaring,
Discarded, the gun lay at rest,
Beyond any real love or caring
She happily faced her arrest.
Each secret's a risk when you're married
And though affairs leave you fulfilled,
Cape Jealous reveals how one carried
A wife to the brink where she killed.
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