Comfort Book

Published by SEEN. PUBLISHING Copyright, 2020, by Cliff Lawson Comfort.

Printed in U.S.A. Cover design, interior illustrations, and design by Cliff Lawson Comfort.

In conjunction to a campaign to help fund LGBT+ artists and writers on college campuses and to persue the mission statement of: “normalizing the developmental processes and emotions of LGBT+ individuals to the masses through art and literature.�

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c l o u d p i e r c e r, lowest temperature, i am a ghost to you and the greatest deceiver

too thin to you, a s k y s c r a p e r, a l w a y s s o still and quiet as the city bustles inside and around it

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Huge pupils, head full of loose change; A drum of smoke encasing a beautiful brain Hand-me-down jeans, hand as big as a chest, A heart in trenches, wilding in modern romance H e a v y j a w, h e e l s locked in soft dominance; A posture perfect shaking in false confidence

Hard shoulders, hair: shaven hazard lines; A polaroid smile burning in my mind.

(they’re) liquid metal, a reflective mirrorland of love and hate and spirit infectious (they’re) art activated, pure expression in colors fully saturated (they’re) oxytocin, flower ocean, glimmering actress in the truest emotions (they’re) your friend, f a m i l y, g e n d e r f l u i d i t y, and iridescent personality