The found poem above was taken from page 4 of the short story “Lather and Nothing Else” by Hernando Tellez. It shows an internal conflict of the barber, the protagonist. In this passage, the protagonist is struggling to decide whether to kill Captain Torres or not. And finally at the end of the story the protagonist decided not to kill Captain Torres, “I don’t want to be a murderer”, “I am only a barber” (page 4), he thought to himself.
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