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Henry Ajah is a medical student at the University of Benin, Nigeria. He’s in love with words and the things they create.

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I Tried To Paint a Girl: Poems by Henry Ajah

February 4, 2017
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I TRIED TO PAINT A GIRL It was the grin at first- the grin which now hides under the veil of a racemate of complication and simplicity. Then, it was such a...

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