Reading Level: Grade 3
Topics: Sports, Wacky Weirdness
Poetic Techniques: Idioms, Narrative Poems, Pun Poems
Word Count: 80

About This Poem

One day recently, I overheard someone use a common phrase, and I realized that it wasn’t just a figure of speech—it could also be taken literally. I thought it might make a fun idea for a poem, so I quickly pulled out my phone and jotted it down before I could forget. A few days later, when I looked back at my notes, I still liked the idea, so I sat down and finished writing the poem.

I’ve also always wondered what would happen if you started with a simple exercise—like doing one push-up on the first day, then two on the second, then three on the third—and just kept adding one more each day. Would you eventually be able to do a thousand push-ups in a row? Maybe this poem has the answer! I hope you have as much fun reading it as I had writing it.

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