Maybe in a parallel universe things take a different turn and what has happened...doesn't happen. It all centers on ****** passing his Art Diploma and not being destitute and almost a *****. One flick of the history switch and "all shall be well and all shall be well."

The;switching rails can direct or guide the train, either on straight path or on the diverging path which is established by a curved rail line.

The railroad switch can only be in one of the two positions at a time. If it is locked the train will change the track. If it is open, it will go straight-through.
And so the Second World War Express does not hurtle through at 19.39.
One hardly notices the switch.

However an experienced traveler of the mind can make out with the sound of the train, that indeed the track is changed.

"No more to say and nothing to weep for!" is a line form Ginsberg's "Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg (1894–1956)"

And here of course ****** converts to Judaism for the sake of his wife and dies on Yom Kippur of all days. It is he Day of Atonement that  concludes the Ten Days of Awe .It is a solemn day of prayer and fasting, on which Jews pray for spiritual purification from past.

There is the now famous( thanks to Cohen;s Who by Fire )Yom Kippur prayer Unetaneh Tokef, part of which is as follows:

"On Rosh Hashanah it is written and Yom Kippur it is sealed
How many shall pass on and how many shall come to be;
who shall live and who shall die;
who shall see ripe old age and who shall not;
who shall perish by fire and who by water;
who by sword and who by beast;
who by hunger and who by thirst..."

Neilah  is said and he blast from the shofar, usually blown as soon as the stars come out,

Neilah literally means “closing” and refers to the symbolic closing of the gates of heaven

And here now my  poem blows out the stars and closes the gate of heaven on what is...what might have been.