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The Perfect Understander

from THE TOWN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2019

By
Albert W. Kayper-Mensah
Edited by
Victoria Ellen Smith
Albert W. Kayper-Mensah
Affiliation:
Mfantsipini School, Achimota College, Queen's College, Cambridge, and London University.
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Summary

Lean and feeble, yet as keen

As an old god at its first sheep,

Mistaking pus for fat,

The young Freudian calls to keep

Another date for meal and chat,

Intent to use as evidence

What e'er she thinks she finds of me,

To make her sexual magnet swing.

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Voices of Ghana
Literary Contributions to the Ghana Broadcasting System 1955–57
 , pp. 214
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2018

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