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Tuesday, January 14, 2025

BEHIND THE SCENE

by Gordon Gilbert

Acknowledging the good use of A.I. for imagery in New Verse News
I will not even try to submit an A.I. image, but simply describe it, 
to accompany my words, which are a parody of the motto of three 
characters in a classic novel:   

Donald Trump's image hovering above a traditional image 
of the Three Musketeers, swords pointed upwards, points touching, 
whose faces are those of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg.  

The title above is "Donald Trump and the Three Musk-eteers.”
The caption underneath is two lines, the first in French, the 2nd, English: 
"Tous pour un, aucun pour tous." 
"All for one, none for all.”


Editor’s note: En garde. We tried.


Gordon Gilbert is a writer living in the west village in NYC, who finds solace in walks along the Hudson River, even while contemplating with trepidation another new year of climate change and political mayhem.