Guy Kelton Jones I' Spoken Word Performance Gets An 11/10 From Simon Cowell! | Auditions | AGT 2026

Hello, how are you? I'm all right. I ain't bad good. How's everything backstage good backstage is hilarious Yes, i've seen a bit of it. How did you feel when you woke up this morning? Um hungry hungry That's how it usually starts, but I felt I felt good. I felt Ready cool. And where are you from? I was born in new york. Yeah raised in the south georgia, tennessee, north carolina. Yeah So America's baby, you know what I mean? Yeah Okay, and why did you decide to come on the show this year? It's a great show I've i've seen it for years and um, it felt felt right to do it this year We love surprises so i'm not gonna ask you anything else. You ready? Yeah, i'm ready. I'm ready. Okay, we're ready. Good luck I'm a poet and um, this poem is called the riot wasn't plan a And if you loved anything that much If you loved anything that much that much you'd fight too You'd fight through who and whatever bet you choose violence over silence every time you might die But you might live You might give the last drop You couldn't stop if you loved anything that much if you loved anything that much to touch your patience with it differently You'd be forced to disagree Compelled to disobey compelled even if afraid god blessed the day long with struggling the night deep with loving and touching now Imagine it disappearing into nothing People To feel love in your mouth again I bet you would turn into a cusser a disruptor a disturber of the peace your peace intact exact precision of blunt instruments It would make no difference However, intuition or intonation might lead you cry and swing and cry and swing for the fences If you loved anything that much you'd fight to you'd fight back No matter how weak they said you were no matter how many days in a row You haven't eaten ain't been sleeping barely breathing still wanting still needing you keep on keeping finding fresh paint for that picket sign You jump the line regretting you only have one life to give for your babies and your lover Lying to your mother who's still in denial about raising a fire starter a flame fanner son of man Not man are you laugh on the witness stand? The only hands you are in belong to the most high shadrach meshach abednego them your first second and third cousins Nat turtle william wallace them your brethren So good. He let me try it again my last owner I live the whole world saying that I keep on trying Thank god very very very very powerful You delivered inspiration And vocals and wisdom all wrapped up in a beautiful package I loved it sophia Your voice is beautiful It feels like you know, you really meant what you were saying and I think that's what made it so special. Thank you You said i'm a poet and you are a poet but you know what you are so much more than just a poet Took poetry and spoken word to a whole other level. Thank you I get it from my mother. I get it from my mom. My mom's a poet. My grandfather was a poet My great-grandmother was a poet Audition first of all was a surprise secondly You've got to be original and importantly you've got to be remembered And you're going to be remembered for that. That was so good That's a 10 That was an 11 Yes, no-brainer yes I really like you four yeses I didn't expect to stand it up. What are you gonna do next my brother? I'm gonna use the bathroom because I really Thank you. Thank you