My left eye was gauged It rolled away on the ground The sight was profound It rolled down the sidewalk and into the street It rolled to coney island and played "shoot the freak" The boardwalk had changed but the cyclone was the same My eye jumped in the pocket of a girl with blonde curls She didn't notice that she trailed an optic nerve My eye licked a pie And slammed a cool beer And rolled onto the pier It gazed out over the salty blue And recalled the cavity That it once knew Already a lovely distant memory There'd be no tears With the duct left behind Merely a dilation To say its sweet goodbye My left eye was free And it rolled into the sea While back home I fumbled to fill the empty hole I found a dried rosebud i'd kept from my love The dehydrated bloom was an awkward fit But what else could i do But when it startled the mailman I popped in a pretty glass marble for show It couldn't be too difficult to fill a silly hole