The poem Lather and Nothing Else is written by Hernando Tellez. The main conflict is when a captain of an invading force (Captain Torres, antagonist) comes into the main character’s (protagonist) barber shop to get a shave. The climax is when the MC starts to shave around the neck area, and starts conflicting with himself if he should kill the captain right then and there. The conflict is mostly internal (man vs self) as the character questions himself. I tried to show this in the poem by including the parts where he was questioning if he should just kill him and how he tells himself how different their jobs are. I tried to take fragments of the story and integrate it into the blackout poem.