I created this poem by using the words in the story “Lather and Nothing Else”, by Hernando Téllez, a Colombian journalist and author. The conflict in this story is person versus self. The conflict is essentially about a person shaving another person’s beard. He can kill that person with the shaver, but he can’t decide if he wants to kill him or not. In this passage, the conflict is shown in these words: “Murderer or hero?” “I can push down a little more on my hand, lean like silk, like rubber, like sheepskin. There is nothing more tender than a man’s skin and the blood is always there, ready to flow. A razor like this does not let you down. It’s my best razor. But I don’t want to be a murderer, no sir.”