The story I read is “Lather and Nothing Else” by Hernando Téllez, it was set during a unstable period of civil war known as La Violencia. The conflict in the story is between the barber and himself, it is an internal conflict because he is having a debate with himself on either he should kill the executioner, Captain Torres, or not. Both the protagonist and antagonist in the conflict is himself. At the end he didn’t kill the executioner because he didn’t want to be a murderer. My poem shows the conflict because at first it says “blood, enemy, murderer,” this is what the barber keeps thinking about. Then it says “I could cut his neck, he wouldn’t suffer, but they’d hunt me.” This shows how killing the executioner is really easy, but there will be consequences. “A coward or a name to remember. So which is it? Murderer or hero?” And then it says “blood is always there” which is kinda like a decoy but at the end the barber said “I, a murderer, no sir. You’re an executioner and I’m only a barber. That’s it.” This reveals that at the end the barber thinks that it’s not his responsibility to kill the executioner. At last it says “killing isn’t easy.” This is what the executioner said to the barber at the end of the story, I think it is important because it may seem easy to kill someone, but it is actually really difficult. In the design, I chose to have many ripped papers together, because it shows that the words are from different parts of the story, and when they are together they make sense. I added some red things, like blood, red lines and stained papers… because it was related to blood and murder. I also added a razor in the middle because this shows how the razor can change everything, it can be a murder weapon, or it can just be a normal razor.