ode 2 an asterisk

To the tune of starman.
Are you multiplication?
Are you equal almost everywhere?
Are you a C* algebra?

(Chorus)

You hold together strings and loops
I donut know why.
May I adjoint you?

Someone has challenged you to a dual.
Raghav how did you get in this song?
Just kidding, it is the derivative operator
JK Turing jump in disguise, wacka wacka
Only one more bottle of chometz to go
da da da da da

And that's how the apostrophe got its bend. By beating up the star operator.

(Repeat 2*n times)