An Everlasting Photo

An old picture appears on the screen. Students stare at the raw reality. The professor praises the photographer’s precision and perfection. But Kevin is criticized at the end as usual. Kevin creates eternity, startles the humanity. But he forgets to save the black girl, blinded by a journalistic passion. Now he smokes, sobs, repents for the little girl. He bleeds from blades. The African girl hangs on his heart’s ridgepole. He isn’t a predator, for he commits suicide. ‘The vulture and the little girl’ was, is, and will be a reminder of the life lost. *Kevin Carter is the Pulitzer Prize winning photo journalist, who committed suicide. First published in The Literary Hatchet (Pear Tree Press, USA)