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Title: Joe Burke's Last Stand

Author: John Moncure Wetterau

Release Date: February 9, 2004 [eBook #11004]

Language: English

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Copyright (c) 2003 by John Moncure Wetterau

Joe Burke's Last Stand

Every Story Is A Love Story

John Moncure Wetterau

(c) 2000 by John Moncure Wetterau

Library of Congress Number: 00-193498

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Thanks to Larry Dake, Christopher Evers, Bruce Gordon, Majo Keleshian,
Jane Lowenstein, Sylvester Pollet, and Nancy Wallace for valuable
suggestions and invaluable support. Gino's poem, "Aesthetic," is by
Sylvester Pollet and is used with his permission.

Cover print: copy after Ogata Korin, 1658-1716.

This book is for Rosy

Joe Burke's Last Stand

1

"My rig's a little old, but that don't mean she's slow--Batman--that
don't mean she's slow." Joe Burke was singing, driving south. His rig
was a blue Ford pickup with a battered cap on