chipb - Hello Poetry

chipb

50/M/Cleveland I was born in Ohio, educated in New England and lived for a while in the San Francisco Bay Area, but recently moved back to Cleveland. I think I'm better at writing short stories than poetry but so far editors aren't agreeing.

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