22: the operator

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the world is weird and it looks so smeared

upon the little purple eyes of mine

they look at me queered and so I veered

away from their dirty damn shine


but even then, they stare at me times ten

and so i stared at them back.

but even, as I fall to a den

their eyes still stab my back


I'm just a little operator

wanting not much any greater

than to be loved by all of you

can you love me too?

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