The poem above was taken from page 4 of the short story called “Lather and Nothing Else” by Hernando Tellez. In this story, the main conflict is internal, in the story, the protagonist  (the barber) is deciding whether or not to kill Captain Torres. near the end of the story,  on (page 4) “From his trousers pocket he took some coins to pay for the shave. And he started toward the door”. this shows us that he paid for his trim and left the store alive, meaning that the barber didn’t kill Captain Torres.