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He doesn’t mean to replace everything,
just to add a few things
to the moment when she passed by.

Move a few chairs or a curtain, amplify a sound.
A tweak of the imagination—
things of that sort, nothing more.

So smaller things don’t interfere as much.

The boy, for example:
agitated son of the greengrocer.
His rude gestures need some revision.