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I have palms but not on hands I offer foods from distant lands When at my peak you'll see me smoke I'm famous for my friendly folk My flowers grow and yet they lay There's fire where a man will play.
Tear me off and scratch my head what once red is now black.
Born of sorrow, grows with age, you need a lot to be a sage. What is it?
I have numbers on my face but can't find 13 any place. What am I?
Never ahead, ever behind, yet flying swiftly past, for a child, I last forever, for adults, I'm gone too fast.
No matter how little or how much you use me, you change me every month.