Subtly Dumb

I went into male modeling late in my teens

handsome I, strong, plus identically twined

a mentor bade us shave and ready to shoot

then, closely examining our photo readiness

he said, "you've missed a spot Marshall, on

your cheeks, right up here, can't you see it?"

but I couldn't, I didn't recognize the fineness 

of the follicles, they were all but invisible to 

my uncorrected vision, an eyesight needing 

glasses but never getting, and the subtly of 

such minuscule bad focus, including inability 

to read facial expressions, is the culprit, and 

not I, of my unseeing, forsaken, total undoing