"Real Men" || Spoken Word || by Harry Baker || RTB

World renowned slam poet and all round awesome human being Harry Baker performs his spoken word piece 'Real Men'.
Harry headlined our event on 15/10/15 at The Watershed, Bristol.
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Filmed by James McQuade & Hannah Brown
Sound by Ben Connett
Editing by James McQuade

[@loki_mischief1338]

Real Men I am a man. Sometimes I put my manhood on display, like going skinnydipping in the sea on New Year’s Day. I’ve gone up for thirds in an all-you-can-eat buffet and I have not once worried about how much I weigh. I am a man. Sometimes I do manly things, not to prove I am a man, but that’s just part of what it brings. So when I stay up playing FIFA on my PS3 til 4, it’s not because I’m insecure, it’s cause it’s fun. And some say that real men are brave men, And brave men are cave men, And cave men are men who do not really show emotion. I say, if something is real, it’s something you can feel. And that can be love, religion, fear or uncertainty. Cause real men have issues, and real men cry, That’s why they make man-sized tissues for their man-sized eyes. And I cry quite a lot. And in this day and age, whether a man’s eyes are dry or not determines that he may be gay… But I am not. I like a girl, I just cry like a girl at certain things. And my main form of catharsis is pixar flicks. The reason that I see them in the cinema is So you cannot see my tears behind these 3D glasses. Cause I broke down in Up, I wept in Toy Story 3, was on the brink in Monsters Inc and Cars did the same thing to me. When watching Wall-E I wasn’t worried about which of my friends’ willies was bigger Cause something in the animation pulled an emotional trigger And you may snigger, if you see these guns are not the manliest But I figure that ain’t the best way to measure manliness. ‘Cause real men have issues, and real men cry, That’s why they make man-sized tissues, Not to be misused by never-been-kissed youths in dimly lit rooms searching KZbin for big boobs, But for the man-sized tears that run from man-sized eyes And the last one I used was watching Sky News when the story came through of a kid named Jordan Rice in Australia, In the worst floods in years, which reduced many men to floods of tears, When faced with death, he didn’t hesitate or take a breath, just gave his life for his brother, So I cried for the brother who died for another, aged 13, the age a boy steps into manhood, proved that he could fill his boots as well as any man could, ‘Cause real men are brave, right? Well it don’t get much braver. So yes, I am 19, I’m not the most prolific shaver If anything I only really weekly need a razor, maybe bi-weekly and not as in twice weekly as in once every two weeks maybe even longer sometimes I am too weak and I wish I could be stronger I did Movember and nobody even noticed but, know this, I am a man as are about half of you regardless who has been doing press-ups all afternoon and when I was 13 I’d stand on my head until the sky was green and the grass was blue and somewhere on this path I grew so yeah I’m still a kid at heart and not ready to grow up and when I go to Nando’s I drink too much coke and throw up but here’s something that we can raise those refillable glasses to cos growing up is something not every kid gets a chance to do ----

[@evernevers5390]

Thx so much

[@benodaboy]

Siting at my desk in my dirty construction gear crying. Thanks. That was amazing.

[@harryrowland1581]

Every time Harry every time

[@juliagermeroth4028]

I just stumbled upon this and want to say how insanely good this is. cool thanks bye

[@thecyberthrift]

Always going to be one of my favorite poets

[@bassheadresources725]

Harry Baker, i am three years younger than you and i felt those film feels exactly the same... and i don’t cry much, am i a man?

[@jecadiaz87]

Beautiful.

[@lynseytempleman4404]

You made me cry. I love you and Chris! X

[@user-sm6qu2yh4w]

His poetry is good

[@thandekagonde4386]

Insanely beautiful Harry!

[@Kazan.Kazanish]

Real men cry. Thumps Up!

[@esmees411]

Yes

[@user-sm6qu2yh4w]

So good

[@multiyapples]

Wow.

[@BlackToothHag]

excellent

[@conradr10]

can i have a written version of this poem i wish to recite it for an English assignment (possibly anyway)

[@RaisetheBar]

+Infinity skating You can find this poem printed in Harry's debut collection 'The Sunshine Kid', available here: www.harrybaker.co/

[@SepterNow]

same

[@evernevers5390]

Lol same who else from grade 10 english class

[@Bloodom1]

Jeez... am I the only one that didn't cry on Toy Story 3? Am I some sort of sociopath?

[@Bloodom1]

@Anders FIRMAN LMAO

[@kaylene1573]

Personally it was really good but i don't really find it funny? I thought it was supposed to be more...touching, or something like that. Idk lol i kinda felt weirded out by the audience laughing

[@soupdragon05]

Slam poetry has grown its audience and found its way into battle rap. He sort of straddles genres as he is a renowned battle rapper as well where he's known as a joker. So maybe plays up to the people who got into poetry through his battle rap