I Built a Big Building
I built a big building for building big buildings.
My building was massive and wide.
And inside that building I built a new building
for building more buildings inside.
And in that new building I built one more building.
And, in there, I built several more.
With every new building inside the last building,
I kept building buildings galore.
I don’t know how many new buildings I built,
but it must have been dozens or scores.
Unfortunately, I’m now trapped in the last one.
I didn’t build windows or doors.
— Kenn Nesbitt
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Reading Level: Grade 3
Topics: Imaginary Poems, Wacky Weirdness, Wordplay
Poetic Techniques: Alliteration, Narrative Poems, Repetition, Wordplay
Word Count: 95
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