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9/22/2026 for Imagine Dragons Poetry Contest sponsored by Robert James Liguori 

Halloween Bones

Inspired by the song Bones, by Imagine Dragons

Gimme, gimme, gimme some trick or treat
I’m standin’ right here, lookin’ at you 
An Abba Zabba is all I need (ooh)
The grim reaper can’t take my life,
Cuz’ I’m already a skeleton on your porch
With a thousand Abba Zabbas (ooh).

My patience is waning
Is this entertaining?
Our patience is waning
Is this entertaining?
I-I-I got this feeling, yeah, you know
Where I'm losing all control
'Cause my costume is skeleton bones
and I really want a Tootsie Roll
Make it sweet, don’t throw stones,
Watch me shake my skeleton bones

Playing with a stick of bubble-gum, all right. 
My bones aren’t black and gray.  They’re white. 
Hit me with a Snickers bar – outta sight! (ooh, oh)
Feeling like a Three Musketeers munching  
Or a Crackle bar a-crunching  
How bout hitting me with a double, 
If it isn’t too much trouble. 

My patience is waning
Is this entertaining?
Our patience is waning
Is this entertaining?

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