Ooga-Booga by Frederick Seidel

Author:Frederick Seidel
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781466879782
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

LAUDATIO

A young aristocrat and Jew and German

The rise of Hitler sent to school in London.

St. Paul’s School made a man a gentleman.

The gentleman grew up to be a boy.

The boy came to America to become a dashing OSS officer.

The boy slipped into Germany to meet the schoolboys plotting to kill Hitler.

The boy became a not bad postwar racecar driver.

The boy became a heterosexual clothes designer.

A Jewish boy donned the uniform of an SS officer,

Cross-dressing across Deathland in the final months of the war,

Urbane inside his skull-and-crossbones attire—

The first John Weitz fashion show, my dear!

When Weitz wanted to obliterate his SS tattoo,

He burned it off with a cigarette just like the real SS.

The underground network he would infiltrate had removed theirs.

A mysterious beautiful woman was involved. It gets better.

There is the story of how he needed publicity

For his fashion line and couldn’t spend much money.

No one had thought of putting advertisements on the back

Of New York City buses back then.

Weitz wrote koans for the age of Warhol.

I don’t understand John Weitz advertising

Went rolling down Fifth Avenue behind a bus.

He looked like a distinguished diplomat when he ate a wurst.

Weitz had the lofty friendliness of a duke.

He was full of goy.

He was not discreet.

He admired the great.

He could operate on automatic pilot

With his beautiful manners.

He had unreal good looks.

He used his mellifluous voice.

John Weitz belonged to clubs, loved boats,

Told lovely anecdotes, bad jokes, wrote cordial biographies

Of colorless Third Reich personalities.

He loved honors and he loved glory.

He kept the Iron Cross

Of his father from the First World War framed on the wall.

He denied that he was dying.

He never sighed until the moment after he died.

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