Had the Nazis won
 There’d have been a
 Nationalist Atlantic Treaty Organization,
 staffed by high-ranking Wehrmacht officials—
 men with names like Speidel, Heusinger,
 Gehlen, and Globke.

Perhaps a man named Werner
 would build rockets for the Reich
 under the stars and stripes.

There’d be an industry for tracing ancestry.
 People might say things like:
 “I’m 47% German and 33% French.” And respond:
 "Aren’t you glad to know that you’re pure?”

We’d compete for purest blood,
 and purest German grammar,
 and German ideals—
 such as Efficiency,
 Individualism,
 the Value of Hard Work,
 and Law and Order.

The police would be held up
 as heroes
 and paid as such,
 with bonuses for cracked skulls
 and hidden lists kept confidential.

Had the Confederates won
 There’d have been a white supremacist United States,
 with a white language,
 and white neighborhoods,
 and white committees deciding
 who speaks
 and who dies.

They’d issue identification cards:
 Eyes: blue
 Hair: blonde
 Blood: Hexadecaroon
 Neighborhood: Birchwood Reserve

The police would stop you
 if you looked like you didn’t belong.

Villains would write our textbooks,
 name our schools,
 tell our stories—
 and we would call them heroes.