Chirpy Dirges

Eloise Emerald's Adventures In The Grass, 8

For from the heavens... Hmmm, might be overstatement:
from great height, where once upon shins towered unbent
kneezes of Weeze's, did descend heavensent,

so to speak, chimero hero with squeak of suspension,
bobble of recoil. From helicoptering gesticulations
of mnemonically twinging ocelli-tipped horns,

Eloise an invitation inferred, mounting bareback
this springheeled samaritan's carapace. As a Jack-
in-the-box jumping bail, off tarmac of ginger tom's muck,

newcomer to the rescue boinged with saltation
unbounded. For want of a seatbelt, stirrups or reins,
she hugged hard the panoplied leaper, airbourne

soon as 6 springs soldered to his suit's chassis
violently decompressed. A white knuckle mobile eyrie,
even compared to 'Walking In The Air' parody

enacted earlier by Eloise & non-niveous Dodo,
but, still, 'pon this poundland Pegasus, cinch to view
Poochipoopopolis by Lucozade aberfanned in toto.

The arc of her serendipitous hexapede steed's
Hulk-jump of a lunar capriole entered
its downward trajectory. Towards hinterland
 
of th'Emeralds' garden hurtling, but shockabsorbing
Zebedee lallies dampened th'impact of landing.
Tho' muted bounce enough to send Weeze sliding
 
down dorsal curve of creature who was saviour
of her foxstreaky bacon. Off Lucozade's pusspussterior,
orangifying beams apricochetted upon her
 
adipose tissue & her exiter outta the inglenuke
no more. Dusting off her derriere, a decent look
at her knight in shining chitin she took. 
                                                  Turretless tank 
 
with a devil's tail, gleam ranging from junglish
Brunswick to continental bottlegreen. Acrest
                                                  its shell swished
a flouncey spine with stagefairy wings, raggedly finished.
 
1/2 a dozen helical, joggling Tigger-tails,
corkscrewed from undercarriage of the hull
of  th'exosuit, a steampunky charleypig. Most providential
 
feature for Eloise, given she had been spared
vivisepulture courtesy of those springs. But there
was something je ne sais kenspeckle (ryuspeckle?) 
                                                            'bout pair
 
o' droopy contusion-corona'd antenneyes,
that thru antenneyelets in its lumbering disguise
seemed 2 tails 'tween 2-time loser's legs, mistranscribed
 
upon a hero's face by homeotic fubar. Then she twigged!
'You're Mojo's drummer, Benzo, beneath that springymajig!'
'Please,madam, that's absurd as a Trollan game of tig!'
th'incognito escargot averred, his ommatophores
throwing shapes like an Egyptian, by exposure's
foreshadowing animated. 'Benzo? Rings no bells. 
                                                            'Fraid you're
 
mistaken, I'm th'Emerald Dragonflea, long underwear type
round these parts.' 'Emerald? Gerald H. Cripes!
We're practically famalamadingdong! You're missing a cape,
 
but you're superhero in my book. Poochipoopopolis
would have been my feline fudgepark Pompeii, near miss
only coz o' your bionic boinging, most courageous
 
Benzo!' gratefully fawned Eloise. 'Oh you, I'm blushing
under this dreadnought getup! Psst, your gumshoegazing
at my pendulous giveaway gogglers wasn't barking
 
up wrong bonsai - it is I, Mojo's Topper Headon,
Mitch Mitchell o' molluscs: Benzo!' the disguised dodman
divulged. 'For springs, I've Frankenharvested resilin
 
from the legs of all the real fleas shed by the Odd
Orange God Dog (Barratt's for flies His chod
chute). & my caparison's cannibaflysed cuticles 'alf the pods 
                                                                      discard.'
 
'Grated Cheese's ghost! You're like Albert Einslime!
That Iron Flea harness looks sardine tin! How'd ya streamline
cochleate caravan you carry not to crack within the confines
 
of that bouncing battlesuit, a shell-within-a-shell?'
Weeze pried, wide-eyed. 'Truth be told, tenerally supple still
am I,' disclosed th'Emerald Dragonflea, a.k.a. the snail,
 
Benzo. 'As both headbanger & a crimefighter, 
which still involves banging heads & notching up shiners, 
I'm precosh. My integument's thus squidgy, immature
 
is my protoconch beneath garden guardian's barding.
I wear a stage-shell when Greasy Crawlies play, jazztarding
mosca moshpits. 1/2 rhythm section's still residing
 
within whorled bunker of said civvies: th'annelid
subwooferer, Skadders, he commandeered it once I did
my Clark Kent telephone box bit. Tho' spannerflid if he did
 
- coz why would being buried puckaterry an earthworm?
Almost as if Le Dieu Caché's making a right Lassie's Alpen
outta their anthropomorphisms! But I must be off, madam,
 
th'Emerald Dragonflea has sworn to rid this locale
of loco locavore so voracious, Crawlies' fanbase dwindles!
'Tis Pacman on 8 legs, Flying King, who has a spindle
 
up his sphincter!' 'Duke Ashtray & his anthropomorphandchas' 
left Weeze blank, but hunchback slug in kickass carapace
would be wise to Mojo's whereabouts, whilst she di'nt know 
                                                            frass!
 
'Alas, Flying King'll be blackfella & Ludo'll be the bugong,'
Weeze grit her pearly gates, 'Ludo's my bosom bug, 
                                                  I must tag along!'
& afterwards, with herself she collogued, source a Growing Song.
 
'All superheroes have sidekicks, like Batman & Debbie McGee,
so hop astride!' Thus the drummer by day & vigilante,
erm, also by day, enlisted her into th'insect insurgency,
 
arachno-No Campaign. After hourish of superpronking,
like opentop elevator whose mechanics were malfunctioning.
upon her flea-us ex machina, Eloise's jumping
 
Jack Nohis noted a telltale yarn motifed chessile
between thorns of her old man's Minerva roses, Wild
West flowerbed, where 2 eyes on stalks & 2 sessile 
1s reversed
  arrow of Ariad-
ne's thread
to Spinnertaur's