This flower has small flowers. Apparently that's a thing? The center cluster makes the disc with rays encircling. The head is a capitulum, a compositional set of many tiny blooms in one, each piece called a floret. They present as one entity seen better from afar. Members of Asteraceae, a family of stars.
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Do you ever look at a sign on a pole and think, "Can anyone do that? Can I grant myself the rulemaker's role and alter the content or format?" Because, sometimes, the signs, you see, are doctored, and it's not clear whether the change was made officially or by a neighbor feeling clever.
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The cackling sun melts the sky. The exhausted earth heaves, unwilling, out of breath. And the people under parasols crawl from shadow to furious shadow, asking why, as the conflagration of a midsummer's day offers sweltering death. The cats twitch in dream as passersby peer longingly at the windowsills where they ignore the street. A lone man smears salty rivers of sweat into his eyes, thirsting for conditioned interlude from this murderous heat. "A cloud, a cloud, oh thank you, a cloud", weary walkers, prostrating themselves to cumulus change, stare into the glare and declare to their friends out loud, newly prepared for hopefully impending rain.
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Light suction to mosquito bite. This tubular tool's neato, right? White plastic itch torpedo's might will help you get to sleep tonight.
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Can something be dedicated not dedicated? Is the declaration not designation? Is the determination not a demonstration? Does undedication deem it deprecated? Is its detraction not debilitation? Does diminution not display disinclination? Is disclosure on its face disseminated? Is its denunciation not defamation? Are we discouraged by its desecration? If it's not dedicated, what is it?
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