Chirpy Dirges

Eloise Emerald's Adventures In The Grass, Book 5

Up, up & awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! Dodo plus passenger
scaled cerulean midsummair some 2 metres,
surplus limbs tucked in like a swaddled Durga

(back when Hindu goddette handled innumerable
teethers, activity plushes & rattles, not an arsenal).
Below them, some dandelions appeared as small

as they had before Ludo's rhymes cut Weeze
down to size. Like dayjobbing Van Gogh stars
seen from the ground they & copycat catsears

once towered, but now they looked a long way down.
Undainty oxeye daisies' discs of pollen,
Safety Yellow evil eyes which had also bored down

upon her when thru the shaggy garden she yomped.
These Eloise's thumbnail could now eclipse
from mobile eyrie, courtesy of Dodo's wingflaps.

Along Tom Thumb thermals, the fly artfully weaved,
less kamikazilly than 1 might have believed
to hear his typical thano-flannel jive.

Like a Luftwaffe shadow in Grandad Emerald's
fav arvo viewing, Battle o' Britain as regaled
by Sir Larry, upon ver(de)micelli jungleland

of bird's eyed lawn fell shadodo of her pilot
(unless the umbral hovering cruciform cutout
was martin or swift insectivoring at height,
 
stalking Dodo & his foxhaired cargo - ulp!).
Weeze was plucky as a girl cadet from pulp
fiction, yet her vertigo spiked: as if glancing sideswipe
 
felt sideways glance at the carmine gable
 -  not Dracula's hierarchy of needs, trickle-
down inevitable, but the sight of the side of next door's
                                                              domicile

 

over the fence, where unpaid boniface, neighbourly Ms.
Zirconia lived. But aerobatics all higgledypig
of Biggles bug did outstrip sane reminiscences

of lemonade & scones at Ms.Z's. However,
Eloise did steal a shufti over her shoulder
at her own backporch receding further & further.

No flytinerary, just a flyline for the bottom
of the garden, tho' at her current stature, her home's
conservatoryless rear seemed bricken Matterhorn.

O would she ever waltz back thru that postern door,
lilting a greeting as she had s'often before,
or must she scale jambs to knob like a ginger spider?

Dodo's pensive passenger was brusquely wrenched
from sorrowful cogitation by an unholy stench!
& from Dodo's descent she discerned they'd reached

what terminus? Municipality of steaming turd,
where a business of flies from impromptu helipads
made vertical takeoffs & landings by the myriad.

Whilst muscidae in myriads more circled the pooey
bluebottopia, aping hovercars in sci-fi movies,
or agitated constellations. 'Urgh, this burb is grody!'

Eloise squealed as Dodo finessed a greaser,
his graceful touchdown no gluteal bruiser,
tho' skosh of splooshback slopped the Weezer's 

crocs (which is why fashion vloggers never extol
fuscia Primani slip-ons with designer holes
as tourwear for excremental dipteran citadels!)

Weeze crossed her arms into elbowed cocoon. 
'I'm happier as a haphephobe in this brown town!' 
Her squeam Dodo oblivibuzzily rejoined,

'Yez, stinks to high heaven - divine innit?
We flies worship odd orange dog, who's god-architect
behind such curlywurly prime real estates

as Poochipoopopolis.' Dodo planted his proboscis
in very poovement itself. 'Slike Hansel & Gretel's cottage,
nom nom!' But the knowledge a fly noshes

the dung he's a denizen of did not divert
her beezer from being olfactorily alert:
there was familiar fetor to this dump's scent.

Tho' faecal fumes tempted Weeze to parbreak,
button with amber ephelides had oft' nosed her fur babe's
butt: 'Odd orange dog? Rot! This log is Lucozade's
 
my ginger tom's.  I'm doyenne of his droppings,
what with sifting thru his tray most mornings.'
Dodo rose incredulously, extricating
 
soiled proboscis with a squelchy pop.
'Great Baxter Stockman's ghost! Are you telling me 
                                        Poochipoopop-
olis is, in actuality, a moggy's jobby?  Stop,
 
marmalade-mazarded femme-beetle blasphemer!
As ephemeral fly everyday I get ephemerer & ephemerer,
so losing my religion's buzzkillin' anathema...
 
Say, is that the time?' At 2 of his wrists sinistral,
where 2 nonexistent watches, horological dogwhistles,
insisted his leavetaking had silently tolled,
 
Dodo feigned a squiz, then bid Elosie adieu.
'Alaz, my flightless lifeguard, I've gotta renew
my flyfe insurance, so it's the tick-tock for toodleloos!'
 
'Hold your horseflies, Dodo, before you 6step
this catscat, who could reverse a Shrinking Rap
in Poochipoopopolis (Lucozade's catscat flytrap,
 
creatio ex browneyehilo)?' 'That'd be Mojo,
most musical of all us muscidae,' ID'd Dodo.
'See that khaki striation in the, ahem, DOGGY-do-do?
 
Follow it to find him buzking with his band.'
From her copro-Creation myth correction he ran,
but didine denier o' Poochipoopopolis's sham    
appellation did unerring bearings boast,
so Weeze held to his directions, tho' on tiptoes
& pinching her nose, ordure avoidance most operose,
cero mal pasos
if poss, to
pitch o'