Hello, my name is Ryan and today I am here to share with you about my found poem. My found poem was based on the short story “Lather and Nothing Else” by Hernando Tellez. This story tells the story of a dystopian world where a barber who is secretly a revolutionary, the protagonist shaves the head for a military officer opposing their revolution, the antagonist. The conflict within the story is mostly internal, as the barber debates throughout the session wether or not he should kill the officer or let him go.  He debates the pros and cons of murdering the officer, like how he would help with the cause and be crowned “avenger of our people” and how he would also be forced to leave his home town and possibly chased down by the officer’s men. He eventually settles his dilemma by letting the officer go, convincing himself that he is not a murderer. My found poem centers around the internal conflict of the barber. I purposefully used words that are antonyms like murderer or hero, avenger and cowardly to highlight the highly different outcomes of the murder if it was to happen. The last verse of the poem was the enlightenment of the barber where he convinces himself that he is better than the officer and decides that he is only a barber, not a murderer. The background is a barber razor because it symbolizes the barber himself, where it can be a murderer or a barber, being an entity of both lights.