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    Not to be
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    Not to be

    By Claude E. Beaumont-Cursonn

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    Un-epic romantic poetry.

    Relationships do not always wind up the way we might like them to and the author examines several worse-case scenarios of two ships colliding in the night.

    No happy endings will be found herein but the depth of nostalgia is trolled for whatever can be harvested.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMartian Publishing
    Release dateMay 25, 2012
    ISBN9781476396156
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      Not to be - Claude E. Beaumont-Cursonn

      …not to be

      By Claude E. Beaumont-Cursonn

      MARTIAN PUBLISHING

      Copyright 2012 by Martian Publishing Company

      Smashwords Edition

      All rights reserved.

      No portion of this volume may

      be reproduced in any format

      without the express written

      permission of the copyright holder.

      This is a work of fiction.

      Any resemblance to persons or

      organizations, living or extinct,

      is entirely coincidental.

      … not to be.

      The boat has left it's harbor -

      Fair ship will sail the sea

      To sink upon the morrow;

      That's what its purpose be.

      A life I've lived in sadness,

      But now too tired to care,

      And like the lost Atlantis,

      Won't rise to touch the

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