The Roaming Eye

A rolling eye stepping out. No hands or feet required.

The Roaming Eye

In NYC where cardboard boxes and bums come from

In the comfort of his brown paper home

The smelly old man sleeps on a concrete ground of cold

Snores alone like a train in heat

Unaware of his left eye detaching to leave

A vacancy sign behind the socket is left, not worth reading

An eye rolling down the highway is strange

Pretending to be a traffic signal is suspicious

Blinking green then yellow is clearly disgusting

Disguised in red makes it downright criminal

Obscene and not very nice indeed

Children want to play marbles

The eye is wiser than you think

Seeing everything through a glass darkly

As it rolls away smartly unseen