I wrote the following found poem about the passage “Lather and Nothing Else”, by Hernando Téllez. This short story is placed during a civil war in Colombia, where a rebel barber decides whether or not to kill the antagonist “Torres”, who is a captain of the military, while giving him a shave. A noticeable conflict in the story is the internal conflict that the protagonist, the rebel barber, has between his two conflicting desires: to kill Torres or just to treat him like a regular customer. In my poem, I showed how the two desires in the barber’s head conflicted against each other by making the font and color of the two different thoughts contrast. I also referred to the angel versus the devil by making the “evil” thoughts red and the “right” thoughts blue.

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