How can I make this eye animation in Flash loop continuously after removing Event Listener?

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I have made a movieclip of an eye, which is set to play a blinking animation at random intervals. I have multiple instances on the stage, and when I play it, there's maybe 1-2 seconds of blinking and then it stops completely. How can I make it loop?

I had to add the removeEventListener at the end because Flash would crash if I didn't, I think because it was infinitely loading the function or something.

The code is placed inside the eye movie clip.

this.gotoAndStop(1); 
var eye:Eye = new Eye(); 
var eyeTimer = new Timer(1000 + Math.random() * 1000); 
eyeTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, blink); 
eyeTimer.start(); 
function blink(evt:TimerEvent😞void 
{ Timer(evt.currentTarget).delay = 1000 + Math.random() * 1000;  trace( "triggered!" ); 
this.gotoAndPlay(1); eyeTimer.removeEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, blink); }