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    An Ode to the Real Housewives of Orange County

    Our beloved bottle blonds returned to us last night with skydiving, poverty, and plenty of bitch fighting. There is only one thing that can contain all the emotions we are still feeling: poetry!

    Yes, Gretchen, Tamra, Lynne, Vicki, and Jeana are our muses and we think that this is a fitting tribute for the start of what is sure to be a great season of foreclosures, petty disputes, and plastic surgery.

    Gretchen Rossi Has a Dildo with a Cord

    Empty
    like feet searching for the ground while hurling
    out of a plane. Empty like tingling
    in the cheeks longing for the flapping rush of wind
    and the taut explosion of a screaming descent.

    Empty
    like a love tank in a Prius that has no sparks
    and no oil and is just cruising down a hill to crash
    into the community's gate. The neighbors will swell
    out of their houses—empty, all their goods pawned—

    And they will watch as her bloody manicure
    sweeps her hair out of her face and she begins
    to climb back up the hill, past the empty homes. The mood
    is foreboding and gnawing, like debt, like a husband
    who doesn't yell, he talks

    But when he talks, he is accused of yelling
    because everything about his spouse is empty,
    her head, her threats, her rhetoric, she is empty
    like a puppet missing a hand
    like a marionette bobbing

    Up and down on yellow strings trying to force her
    body into a desirable shape. She is just gilding it,
    like a leather and diamond cuff, like Wonder Woman's
    magic bracelets,
    bullets deflecting in every direction.

    The jewelry is designed by a beast, her
    tanned hide stretched tight over ribs
    like a fleshen xylophone. Hit her with mallets,
    make her sing a song of peace as she brings the enemies
    around a table, floods it with wine.

    Watch them fight, watch them cower. There are
    no angels here. Only the accused, eyes still
    puffy from crying at the beach with her little creature terriers
    named pain and vanity. She cares for them
    but longs for a man

    Blank as a slate to throw her around a cluttered garage.
    There is no room for your grief in the flotsam.
    Clear out a space for your dead husband's hospital bed, the Ming vase
    urn, swirling with the blue lines of your tears
    protecting the chunky ash.

    Around the dinner table, let them talk about flowers,
    let them talk about work
    Let them talk about truth and grievances.
    No victims, just someone to tell you to shut the fuck up
    to seance the ghost of your gold digging succubus

    Before the final empty accusation:
    Gretchen Rossi has a dildo with a cord.


    Send an email to Brian Moylan, the author of this post, at brian@gawker.com.