Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre - Small Talk

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КОМЕНТАРІ • 153

  • @iLOVEpicklesBRO28
    @iLOVEpicklesBRO28 8 років тому +364

    He's such a good poet, dude. Even when he purposely makes it a bit clunky so we feel the awkwardness, his voice still makes it sound just a little bit like music. Great talent

  • @contrapasso
    @contrapasso 8 років тому +215

    LOVE THIS. Also I kept counting his fingers because my brain was convinced the dramatic metaphor was gonna become bloody real quick.

    • @mousie09-13
      @mousie09-13 4 роки тому

      thenormalstate I was internally checking to see if part of his finger was gone

  • @Bloodanna
    @Bloodanna 8 років тому +121

    Hot damn. I don't know how you even find the words for this.
    I fell in love with his art when I first saw him perform at my school and every poem since then has proven why that was a brilliant move.
    He is just lovely in the most visceral of ways.

  • @victoriaelizalde3066
    @victoriaelizalde3066 7 років тому +105

    I bought his book and I absolutely do not regret it. I highly recommend buying it.

  • @GUANTESOLO
    @GUANTESOLO 8 років тому +563

    aaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy thanks for posting.

    • @yuuutooobbaby
      @yuuutooobbaby 8 років тому +2

      Your words are amazing. Keep doing what you do.

    • @meccaamor8499
      @meccaamor8499 8 років тому +2

      +GUANTE I love you so much!!!! You are amazing!! Keep doing what you do man!!! >v

    • @MikalaMetalnurk
      @MikalaMetalnurk 8 років тому +2

      +GUANTE I love your stuff! My favorite is "Ten Responses to the Phrase Man Up". Your words are powerful. Keep on going on with your bad self.

    • @Mizzpurpleninja1013
      @Mizzpurpleninja1013 8 років тому +3

      +GUANTE I dont think you understand. You are powerful. I trust you with that power, you are using it for the right reasons. Thank you.

    • @doitright4910
      @doitright4910 8 років тому

      I love you ahhhhh 😍😍😍😍 when are you performing next ?

  • @RyanGiggsOBE
    @RyanGiggsOBE 8 років тому +57

    Never get tired of the passion in his voice. Should be signed to Rhymesayers by now surely

  • @emileyphillips6638
    @emileyphillips6638 5 років тому +25

    He’s got a voice like broken, melted glass. Certain sharp peaks, with smooth melted valleys.

  • @resilientwriter
    @resilientwriter 8 років тому +14

    INCREDIBLE stage presence!! This was a true joy to watch. Thank you for sharing!

  • @allysonanderson1807
    @allysonanderson1807 6 років тому +3

    I re watch this poem every time I’m feeling misunderstood or just in a bad mood. It always makes me feel better. I love his work

  • @xXSabzyKababzyXx
    @xXSabzyKababzyXx 8 років тому +41

    I'm a turtle without a shell. Pulling myself out of the magicians hat, night after night, leaving fragments of my body in every dusty corner of this country AND I HAVE THE SCARS TO PROVE IT

  • @meaganlamartiniere3729
    @meaganlamartiniere3729 7 років тому +4

    First time watching you. I love the way you phrase things, the pauses, the tone. Amazing work. I used to write poetry when I was sad and now that I'm not so sad I don't write much anymore. "My bones have done a good job keeping me up" I fell in love with that one phrase. Beautiful

  • @catsidyisnotcool
    @catsidyisnotcool 8 років тому +2

    Fell in love with guante when I heard people doing his poems at the Minneapple this year.

  • @cass123456789013
    @cass123456789013 8 років тому +3

    I love his voice and his honesty

  • @daniellem8185
    @daniellem8185 7 років тому +3

    You are, without a doubt, one of my favorite poets I've come across

  • @arannisanchez490
    @arannisanchez490 7 років тому

    This poem is so real. So honest. Beautiful.

  • @jdmontana1
    @jdmontana1 3 роки тому

    Wow your passion just inspires me! Your truly a voice and a messenger for those who are silent, suppressing these kinds of thoughts on so any Topics.. I Literally choked up in tears from your "10 responses to the phrase man up".. Love your work Guante !

  • @evanescentobsolescence4574
    @evanescentobsolescence4574 8 років тому +18

    Guante is such an amazing poet. I aspire to be half the man that he is

  • @danifree1487
    @danifree1487 6 років тому

    I have goosebumps all over my body. What an amazing poet! You feel his words and emotions.

  • @darkersideoflight1
    @darkersideoflight1 8 років тому +10

    A lesson is here to be learnt you can rant all day long and call it slam poetry but when you add emotions and expression then you go to another level fantastic piece of work

  • @flow3child172
    @flow3child172 8 років тому

    You make me feel like I finally belong, this poem spoke to me more than I could have ever imagined, more tha I can explain, more than you will ever know... Thank you for this... You've inspired me...I love this poem...

  • @scarlettrey123
    @scarlettrey123 7 років тому +5

    What a guy to bring home to your parents that's all I can say

  • @summydots
    @summydots 6 років тому

    I absolutely love the way he ends the poem and his stage presence

  • @MmmKayHuuNay
    @MmmKayHuuNay 7 років тому

    Finally a TRUE poet. Too many wannabes online. Some people are just born poets and artistic. This is one of them.

  • @logannatalia7410
    @logannatalia7410 8 років тому +1

    one of my favorites now

  • @louisedavison98
    @louisedavison98 8 років тому +15

    I was very excited to watch this. A beautiful piece, yet again.

  • @ZoeNycole
    @ZoeNycole 8 років тому +1

    this is my favorite freaking thing. I've got goosebumps and Im in love

  • @TheSarapipe
    @TheSarapipe 8 років тому +27

    so he's a magician

  • @Rachel-zq4ib
    @Rachel-zq4ib 8 років тому

    this is literally one of the best poems ahhh

  • @izzyTOOfly33
    @izzyTOOfly33 8 років тому +5

    I've been sitting in classes and going to office hours this past week and kept thinking about this poem. Glad Button Poetry posted it. Now to watch the video from the OG +GUANTE page

  • @nyx1395
    @nyx1395 2 роки тому

    2022 and I keep finding myself coming back

  • @anobodyreally6849
    @anobodyreally6849 6 років тому +1

    New favourite poet !!!!! Damn I love him 😭✨🖤

  • @Maherinator
    @Maherinator 4 роки тому

    The passion you feel is amazing bruv. I feel it. Teach me

  • @butterflyfarting
    @butterflyfarting 6 років тому +4

    I keep returning to this poem. Motivating to see someone so passionate about the work they. He's well articulate and a good speaker.

  • @jonathondavis4255
    @jonathondavis4255 8 років тому +8

    Mind blastingly powerful as always! I feel your scars mate, read them like braille and they speak of my own fragility...and strength! Definitely one of my favs.

  • @FieldsofTrenzalore
    @FieldsofTrenzalore 6 років тому +2

    "I am pulling myself out of the magician's hat, night after night."

  • @MaddyLaLaLove
    @MaddyLaLaLove 7 років тому +3

    "Scars to prove it", "Give me 10 dollars I will show you everything" 😣😭

  • @FirstThief
    @FirstThief 7 років тому

    I love this.

  • @marcandlaynefungi8162
    @marcandlaynefungi8162 4 роки тому

    Amazing!

  • @lesliepyne6670
    @lesliepyne6670 8 років тому +1

    Amazing.

  • @mspunket91
    @mspunket91 8 років тому +1

    I didn't want him to stop.

  • @hippie_thinking
    @hippie_thinking 4 роки тому

    As free people; artists, we do whatever the hell we want for a living.

  • @Ebon_Sean
    @Ebon_Sean 8 років тому +2

    Ah, Guante. Never clicked a thumbnail so fast.

  • @idolRue
    @idolRue 7 років тому +4

    I was internally MMMMMing this entire time

  • @kodablue6271
    @kodablue6271 8 років тому +98

    This guy sounds like...HERCULES MULLIGAN

    • @naeleahbell7942
      @naeleahbell7942 8 років тому +11

      i take informtion and i smuggle it XD

    • @kodablue6271
      @kodablue6271 8 років тому

      +Naeleah Bell Hahahahaha yass

    • @isabellanesheiwat8
      @isabellanesheiwat8 6 років тому +2

      IF U KNOCK ME DOWN I GET THE FUCK BACK UP AGAIN

    • @chiannegibbs9462
      @chiannegibbs9462 5 років тому +1

      TAILOR SPYING ON THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT

    • @ohnames2382
      @ohnames2382 5 років тому +1

      Brah brah I am Hercules Mulligan uppin', loving it, yes I heard your mother say; come again? Lock up your daughters and horses, of course it's hard to have intercourse with four sets of corsets.

  • @rozan1891
    @rozan1891 8 років тому

    beautiful

  • @zoetiger99
    @zoetiger99 8 років тому +13

    $10 is a dollar a finger. A finger for every moment to not forget. That's what I get out of it

  • @latedala07
    @latedala07 8 років тому +4

    This is such a cool poem, not only is wordplay exquisite, but your voice....you could be saying nonsense and I wouldn't care. The sounds and inflections that shine through the words are so incredible.

  • @anaisabeI
    @anaisabeI 8 років тому

    you're a real artist, I loved it!

  • @belmarisg3579
    @belmarisg3579 8 років тому

    This was such an amazing slam poem .

  • @moodytillie3333
    @moodytillie3333 8 років тому

    Oh my! love

  • @Paseosinperro
    @Paseosinperro 8 років тому +83

    What do you do for a living? I hate that question.

    • @hwonitojv9503
      @hwonitojv9503 8 років тому +2

      for real. I thought I was the only one

    • @reesehale967
      @reesehale967 6 років тому

      Jorgeruiz because no matter what you say it's never good enough

    • @Tima-oz5te
      @Tima-oz5te 5 років тому +1

      it's almost tiring as answering "what are you studying" when you tell someone you're in college/university

  • @mariat.1442
    @mariat.1442 8 років тому +1

    Am I the only one who thinks he looks a little like Channing Tatum?
    Whatever, that was a great poem that truly touched me. I love this channel :)

  • @ladyj.9350
    @ladyj.9350 7 років тому

    love guante
    love

  • @justlittleme-2149
    @justlittleme-2149 8 років тому

    OUCH! That last part hit way to close to home.

  • @elisafreisinger8158
    @elisafreisinger8158 6 років тому

    wow got goosebumps

  • @ColinFPS
    @ColinFPS 6 років тому

    I'm speechless

  • @MrSaqeq1
    @MrSaqeq1 8 років тому +10

    this is pretty freaking amazing

  • @zizzazzy
    @zizzazzy 7 років тому

    After discovering you just today.. your passionate verbiage, at one point gave me chills down my spine.. mesmerizing my mind.. I could not look away.. untill you would say.. nothing else.

  • @jessicawatson2451
    @jessicawatson2451 8 років тому

    THIS. A 1000x.

  • @jessicayu8356
    @jessicayu8356 5 років тому

    holy heck this was AMAZING

  • @m.yeomans4107
    @m.yeomans4107 8 років тому

    fuck yessss!!!!

  • @idkidk959
    @idkidk959 3 роки тому +1

    When my girlfriend’s parents ask me what I do for a living…
    I pull a straight razor out of my back pocket. I don’t tell ‘em I’m a poet; I sure as hell don’t tell ‘em I’m a rapper. I just pull a straight razor out of my back pocket.
    And sure: I could lie, I could say that I’m a pilot or a handsome man or a teacher or the change that I want to see in the world or a pipe-smoking grad student. I could go on and on about all the locked doors I can open, or the exotic locales that have crawled up my nose, or the blinding glossiness of my resume paper. I could give them joyful heart attacks; I could Santa Claus their systems.
    But I don’t. I pull a straight razor out of my back pocket.
    And yeah: this is overly dramatic. But I’ve never been very good at smalltalk. I’m always too busy wondering where interesting scars come from. Too busy asking myself how many poorly aimed arrows and casual brushes of skin and drownings and split seconds of eye contact over the past ten thousand years have constructed this moment. Too busy imagining the soundtrack to my life dominated by smiling, adult contemporary alterna-rockers, and saying no; give me hip-hop dressed in leather, knuckles cracking. Give me whatever the opposite of novocaine is, let it pulse beneath my skin and make every cut and lick and bruise unbearably magnificent.
    Because we could talk about the weather, we could deaden our colors and round our jagged corners so that we may fit more precisely in our own carry-on luggage; I could rattle off a string of pop culture references and we'd all have a good laugh, but I don’t; I pull a straight razor out of my back pocket.
    And just as her father begins to say “so, you’re a barber?” I SLICE MY LITTLE FINGER OFF.
    They jump back, instantly, like characters in a poorly edited student film, their lines caught between their teeth, their eyes staring straight into the camera. Levitating with pain, I pick my discarded digit up from the Olive Garden floor, and with the black sharpie I always keep in my other back pocket, I write my name on it, and I say:
    “Give me ten dollars and I’ll let you keep this. Not the finger. The moment. Give me ten dollars as tribute to the truth that we once stood here, that I did something worth remembering, that you on this day witnessed something larger than traffic, or stormclouds or time passing. For the price of a fancy breakfast, press your fingers to the wet cement of my tombstone. Stand in the background of my iconography. It’s only ten dollars; tell my bones they’ve done a good job keeping me upright-tell yourself, that this day did not blur by, that this journal entry would be more than an absent-minded doodle. For ten dollars I will carve my initials in your brainstem.
    “What do I do for a living? I am an artist. I am a turtle without a shell, and I have the scars to prove it. I am pulling myself from the magician’s hat night after night and I have the scars to prove it. I am leaving fragments of my body in every dusty corner of this country and I have the scars to prove it. Give me ten dollars, and I’ll show you everything.”

  • @Abby-ts3vn
    @Abby-ts3vn 8 років тому

    Deeply in love.

  • @asias3000
    @asias3000 6 років тому

    loveee it

  • @devontheultra
    @devontheultra 4 роки тому

    okay, so.. I knew that he didn't really cut off his finger, but I was still amazed when he revealed that it was still attached to his hand.

  • @FalTicMANiiAK
    @FalTicMANiiAK 8 років тому +57

    You remind me of Channing Tatum LOL but ily more

    • @Sean-uv2di
      @Sean-uv2di 8 років тому +7

      JOOOHN CENA

    • @shayleegraham891
      @shayleegraham891 4 роки тому

      YYYYEESSS!!!, reminds me so much of Channing I came here to see if I was the only one

  • @AJFes12
    @AJFes12 4 роки тому

    can anyone explain the straight razor out of my back pocket lines? i think i get some of it but i dont get the part of the slicing just to make conversation, still a great piece and even greater delivery i like itt

  • @kate-gu4fp
    @kate-gu4fp 8 років тому

    so amazing wow wow wow

  • @briannemanuel8600
    @briannemanuel8600 6 років тому

    Chills ❤

  • @SistaSista179
    @SistaSista179 8 років тому

    speechless

  • @snowball0jb
    @snowball0jb 8 років тому +10

    I love it does he have a channel

    • @SuperLaneyLou
      @SuperLaneyLou 8 років тому

      Yes

    • @GUANTESOLO
      @GUANTESOLO 8 років тому +8

      +Josephine Barrera I do, haha. Thanks!

    • @snowball0jb
      @snowball0jb 8 років тому

      +GUANTE haha thanks I'm going to go subscribe (:

    • @XxDeadbulletz
      @XxDeadbulletz 8 років тому

      that's what I was thinking. imma sub too ^_^

  • @BassClefEly
    @BassClefEly 2 роки тому

    SOMEBODY GIVE HIM TEN DOLLARS ALREADY!

  • @catelilian2392
    @catelilian2392 6 років тому

    He is literally larger than life.

  • @keddecker8536
    @keddecker8536 8 років тому

    True man

  • @chuckrogers8492
    @chuckrogers8492 8 років тому

    Inspired!!!

  • @darby_hudson
    @darby_hudson 6 років тому

    talking about the weather isn't 'small talk'. in actual fact, it's big talk. and it contexts us as small and pretty insignificant.

  • @briannalashae5558
    @briannalashae5558 7 років тому

    i think i have fallen in love again

  • @death0personified
    @death0personified 8 років тому

    AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!! AUUUUUUUUUUU! OHHOHOHOHOHOHOH!! Wow!

  • @BurntBurrito111
    @BurntBurrito111 5 років тому

    Someone get this man $10

  • @yukinochang-leng8272
    @yukinochang-leng8272 8 років тому

    Oh my god.

  • @ellasanderson2597
    @ellasanderson2597 8 років тому

    this how i feel about small talk

  • @jakehanson6963
    @jakehanson6963 6 років тому +1

    Does anyone know if this poem is published in his book?

  • @kirastrikes8773
    @kirastrikes8773 8 років тому

    i pull myself out of the magicians hat and i have the scars to prove it

  • @bioschlock
    @bioschlock 6 років тому

    Fuck yeah

  • @connorrowley2849
    @connorrowley2849 3 роки тому

    Soooo, the takeaway is what exactly?

  • @forrestcorbett26
    @forrestcorbett26 8 років тому

    It kinda looks like he doesn't have a head past the top of his eyebrows, that beanie is trippy.

  • @cortneyezzy2968
    @cortneyezzy2968 7 років тому

    where is Guante from

  • @lillymirembe4474
    @lillymirembe4474 3 роки тому +1

    Wow people really hate small talk....XO

  • @KelsoMichelle
    @KelsoMichelle 8 років тому

    I think I'm in love. I don't have 10$ but I have a heart he can hold.

  • @michaelicious2000
    @michaelicious2000 5 років тому

    I miss what this channel used to be, rip

  • @simranhans8806
    @simranhans8806 7 років тому +1

    I have the scars to prove it

  • @JaydaCelia
    @JaydaCelia 8 років тому +1

    well done fam

  • @XRatedPoetry
    @XRatedPoetry 8 років тому

    Well that was different :)

  • @sarah-tw7eh
    @sarah-tw7eh 8 років тому

    damn

  • @snowball0jb
    @snowball0jb 8 років тому

    what's his youtube

    • @GUANTESOLO
      @GUANTESOLO 8 років тому +5

      +Josephine Barrera right here!

  • @penelopepegg7834
    @penelopepegg7834 8 років тому +6

    I'm not sure why but I feel like he reminds me of Channing Tatum a little bit....

  • @alexc.1745
    @alexc.1745 8 років тому +4

    i want him to meet my parents lol

  • @dragonbefriender7147
    @dragonbefriender7147 8 років тому

    same though

  • @TewahK
    @TewahK 7 років тому

    OMG he got my ten dollars.😉

  • @maristellas9669
    @maristellas9669 8 років тому +1

    eeyyyy beanie man lol