Knockin

There’s a hiatus for a week or so.

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Joshua Fahey 

Borrowing

That I may have your love, dear mother

The love you have for my brother

That I may have your hope and faith

Now and at the hour of death

Every hour and every day

May I have Christ’s will to pray

That I may have his fortitude

His very walk in my bones imbued

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Joshua Fahey 

Batteries

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Joshua Fahey 

Horror

Vicious acts scar the heart

Infect the mind and sour the soul

Zombies stop thinking in order to go

After eternity sets the rot imparts

A hellhole

No way to be saved or to grow

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Joshua Fahey 

Dark Dog Day

Water every place on me

Burning patience down to my knobby knee

Boiling ire up, letting the dagger free

Raining down down down

Darkness, blindly, all I can see

Wrapping me in a cynical gown

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Joshua Fahey 

Ski

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Beg

Needing the cage, the flames, the justice 

Is a selfish wont unheeding

Of His desire, no faith to trust His

Mercy ever exceeding

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Joshua Fahey 

Show of Hands

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Joshua Fahey 

Follow

Following the flow of the song

Being brought along

Finding form

Against the formless norm

Yet normal in

Everything but sin

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Joshua Fahey 

Friendly

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Joshua Fahey 

Time

Jewels and rust

Weathered trust

Aged and ageless hymns

Sung by saints with forgiven sins

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Joshua Fahey 

Shredder

Thrown out in slits

Crashing paper down to bits

Two bits not worth a dime

No more time

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Joshua Fahey 

Lie in Shadow

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Joshua Fahey 

Headache

Variance of being

Seeing

Lights playing within the mind

Too much caffeine

I find

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Joshua Fahey 

Mustard Seed

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Joshua Fahey 

Debt

A slave is not

A holder of debt

Over the master

The duty is set

Made great by faith

But never faster

Then the wave

Of grace that sought

And filled the pasture

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Joshua Fahey 

Hellish Cavern

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Joshua Fahey 

Outdoor Cleanliness

Marshmallows and graham crackers

Are messy to eat

Melted chocolate still in the wrappers

And a sigh in defeat

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Joshua Fahey 

Caste

Siloed, split, solitarily sorted

Boxed and labeled for ease of use

And when the upper caste needs a fix

None packed daré to come loose

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Joshua Fahey 

Orb

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Joshua Fahey 

Acts

I bow, my head lowered

My back and neck bent

My eyes not looking forward

Humility sincerely meant

I kneel, before my brother

My king, shepherd, Lord

And not any other

Nor in another’s sward 

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Joshua Fahey 

Chasm

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Joshua Fahey

Impossibility

Only a fool doesn’t try

To cross a chasm that wide

Go where the lights

But instead seeks to hide

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Joshua Fahey 

Spectacle

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Joshua Fahey 

No Escape

From the eternal springs

A race of immortal kings

Whose permanent names

In unquenching flames

Are never forgotten or erased

From that eternal, they are based

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Joshua Fahey 

Down a Hill

Underside and roll

Dodging the pole

Hitting the dam

Underscore the BAM!

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Joshua Fahey 

Ants

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Excited

Steel cage

Steal the rage

Seal the wrath

Surreal path

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Joshua Fahey 

Thumbed Scales

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Pure Scheme

Would that I could be sure

Of a long term joy

I’d man that plan so pure

Scheming any ploy

No guess, it’s a yes to be

Following on His Way

A king, I’ll sing out free

A man, I’ll kneel and pray

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Joshua Fahey 

Toilet Paper

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Joshua Fahey 

Importance of Prayer

With the need to face

I twist

The logic to brace 

I twist

The faults to confront

I twist

The church bells are blunt

I twist

With grace, discomfited prayer

I twist

Yet in my bleats you are there

You untwist

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Joshua Fahey

Raining Paths

Fearing the rain is the path to the desert

Not fearing the rain is the path to death

Loving the rain leads out of the desert

Not loving the rain is a final breath

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Joshua Fahey 

Social Butterfly

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Wedge

Shoulders stiffened, arms awry

Eyes strained looking at the lie

With a little focus, and a long breath

A relaxed tension seeks out death

In the eyes of gods, mortals are fools

Knocking balls with self imposed rules

In the eyes of God, who became man,

Freedom is swinging a ball out of sand

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Joshua Fahey 

Slop

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Joshua Fahey 

Wayfaring Home

Not found in the dustiest tome

Seen in any palacial pinnacle 

Nor hidden in any corner I roam

Is a home where peace is full

Only in the quiet hall

Adorned by a man on a tree

Dead because of our fall

Is home found, joyous and free

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Joshua Fahey 

Gaming

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Hell

I’ve made my blade dull

Joints worn down, eyes glossed

My heart no longer full

Wandering, a man who’s lost

No pleasure pleases again

No fear motivates the battle

A thousand deaths like rain

I meander on like cattle

This is the hell I drank

Of vices small but rank

No virtues high or low

Tepid does my spirit flow

Always walking at a loss

But in my speech

I cannot reach

The path of the Savior’s cross

Always talking like a fool

And without grace

I cannot face

Hiding my eyes with wool

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Joshua Fahey 

Penitent

Few freeze the feathered or fluffed

Gone like geese ungathered, agape

Harrowing the healthy hordes of hope

Like Jezebel, jeering, adjoined to jest

Yet kept, clean, the community quickens

In lively lilt of hallowed love

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Joshua Fahey 

Tools

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Joshua Fahey 

Acedia

Idling, idling, hardly idling

No rest, rest, rest, yet empty

Whispers sifting, cajoling, sidling

No prayers, yet pleasures plenty

Death does not come quick enough

For the life filled with fluff

In apathetic misandry rip’ning

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Joshua Fahey 

Take Up Your Cross

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Joshua Fahey 

Detached

Wealth or fame, let it go

Dig a hole, dig it deep

Family the same

Dig a hole, do not weep

Digging holes? Let that go too

Dig a hole, fill it up

With He who is love, source of the true

Let it go, drink his cup

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Joshua Fahey 

Boiling

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Nexus

When left and right meet

At a point so oblique

The voices all weep

Like the seed of a tree

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Joshua Fahey 

Keepers

Better than bottle are barrels

Better than barrels are boxes

Better than boxes are bags

Of water 😄

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Joshua Fahey

Donut Run

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Afternoon Tea

Whisk to sleep

Stir to dream

Cream dessert filling

Rest

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Joshua Fahey 

Comfortable Chair

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Joshua Fahey 

Invite

Forgotten in the alleys

Go and invite the light

Darkness of the valleys

Go and defeat the night

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Joshua Fahey 

Jester’s Crown

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Joshua Fahey 

Settings Haiku

Privately discussed

Placements of forks, knives, and spoons

Upon the table

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Joshua Fahey 

Strum

A note in fight, flight

Giving light in tension

Heat

Fire burning the mansion

Chord

Harmony, matrimony, duel

Dual?

More fuel

A holocaust for the Lord

Burning even bone

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Joshua Fahey 

Floating

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Joshua Fahey 

Drinking

Hydration does not

At first

Quench thirst

A lot

Yet with patience does

Keep at bay

The way

Of water loss

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Joshua Fahey 

Gate

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Joshua Fahey 

Narrow

Narrow is the truth

Narrow is the way

For many are the lies

Malicious people say

Narrow is the light

Narrow is the gate

Mercy is the narrow chance

To change our fallen fate

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Joshua Fahey 

Floating Eye

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Joshua Fahey 

Forgetting

Forgetting the unimportant

Forgetting the important

Remembering only God

In prayer

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Joshua Fahey 

Gift

Pliant grass

Stubborn tree

Mystic sea

Present gas

Humble stone

Rigid bone

Muscle mass

Elements as themselves and yet

Not the least bit othered, upset

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Joshua Fahey 

Planting

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Joshua Fahey 

Campfire

Darkest jade cannot outshine

The pitch black night in which you hide

Sharpest ruby cannot outglow

The warming ember when you show

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Joshua Fahey 

Fiery Sword

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Joshua Fahey 

Help

Like a wing of fire

Lifting me higher

Is my help in the Lord

Like a sword’s edge

Is my soul’s pledge

And help in the Lord

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Joshua Fahey 

Buttons

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Joshua Fahey 

Roll

Rolled and rolled

Against the will

Emptying pain

Never still

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Joshua Fahey 

Skiing?

Down the hill

Pay the bill

Keeping still

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Joshua Fahey 

Changing Snack

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Joshua Fahey 

Sunrise

Loved and sincerely seen

Warned and guided on the way

Through which storm have I not been

And not greeted the glow of a new day?

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Joshua Fahey

Things Hoped for

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Joshua Fahey 

Working on it

Sharing the labor

Spreading the joy

Cultivating hope

Blocking Satan’s ploy

Giving to God all time and strength

Readying the soul for eternal length

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Joshua Fahey 

Pieced

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Joshua Fahey 

Programming

Torn down and rebuilt

Trouble to the hilt

Bits in the ether

Bugs ending, never

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Joshua Fahey 

On the Water

Walking and running

Across the flow

Look at the waves go, go, go!

Clouds stop the sunning

Amidst lightning falls

But Christ is coming

And he calls, calls, calls!

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Joshua Fahey 

Cactus

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Joshua Fahey 

Lust

A hole in the whole

Made by a mole

Oneself?

Self-destroying role

Cracked bowl

Son of Adam stole

Leaving in the whole

A hole

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Joshua Fahey 

Stuffed

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Joshua Fahey 

Blind and Lazy, Greedy and Foolish

Done a little

Done a lot

Never moving from this spot

Move a little

Or a lot

Never giving what I’ve got

And at the end of vanities

A hellish cold, my soul to freeze

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Joshua Fahey

Tent

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Joshua Fahey 

Circling Around

Coming to a fork

Turn left

Another turn

Again left

Around the bend

Turning left?

Stuck in a circle

Still left??!!

Help!!

Shepherd’s staff, Thunk!

No longer left bereft

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Joshua Fahey 

Focused Diligence

Take a step

Climb the slope

Never in hubris

Never mope

Just take a step

Then again

Now a man

Amongst all men

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Joshua Fahey 

Boinggy

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Joshua Fahey 

Less Talky, More Walky

Lips move

Sounds sound

Nothing improves

Until feet hit the ground

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Joshua Fahey 

Artificial Intelligence

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Joshua Fahey 

Prayer

Words to the Word

Love to the Ghost

Self to the Father

Praises of the host

Glory of the people

Baptized in His death

Living in His mercy

Breathing in His breath

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Joshua Fahey 

Disc Golf

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Joshua Fahey 

Lost Lamb’s Cry

In the center, out

Breathing once again

Tearing away doubt

Opening the pen

Freedom with a shout!

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Joshua Fahey 

True Death

Caught and bent

Twisted within

Sparkled and spent

Suddenly dim

Light that went

Out on its own whim

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Joshua Fahey 

My Heart to Bursting

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Joshua Fahey

Face the Music

Words that deceive

Twist the eyes away

From seeing Truth

Obstructing time to pray

From seeing Love

Putting family on the shelf

From seeing God

Even in oneself

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Joshua Fahey 

Prayer While Cooking

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Joshua Fahey 

Self-absorbed

Circling in my own little universe

Round and round in a pitiful snow globe

Anxious about the perfection, immersed

In a nonexistent irrelevant lobe

Despair tears at my soul

And I call to the God who is whole

Rudely I demand a probe

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Joshua Fahey 

Protection

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Joshua Fahey 

Before Meals

Simple day

Simple drive

Simply pray

Over simple fries

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Joshua Fahey 

Living on a Prayer

Wearing pain like a badge

Shielding me from care

But every wall built crumbles

In the onslaught of daily prayer

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Joshua Fahey 

Light

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Joshua Fahey 

Now Choose!

Closets full, diversely organized 

Blacks and reds and whites in any size

Shoes and jackets, hats and socks

Suits and dresses, shorts and frocks

But what to pack in single bag?

Space contorts and time will lag

Finding the rightness in infinite choice

Calls courage and wisdom to voice

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Joshua Fahey 

Robbed

Robbed myself blind

Beaten the fool

Soul scarred and lined

With a torturous tool

Yet my wounds close

My heart in an embrace

Because you choose

To have taken my place

(Sorry for forgetting to post)

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Joshua Fahey 

Helping Hand

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Ground Down

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Joshua Fahey 

Summer Haiku

Heat drying out Earth

Flames devour the skies and seas

Extinction event

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Joshua Fahey 

Distance

Moats define

Drawbridge up

Ramparts patrolled 

Soldiers sup

None know what’s within

A heart closed off because of sin

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Joshua Fahey 

Hydrant

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Joshua Fahey 

Charting the Flow

Rivers run run run

Never always there

Courses change change change

Both frequently and rare

Yet in fun fun fun

River rafters dare

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Joshua Fahey 

Peace

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Joshua Fahey 

Laborers

Sent to danger

Peril and suffering

Foolishness to Greeks

Happily go the saints

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Joshua Fahey 

Freedom to Read

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Joshua Fahey 

Before Bed Haiku

Needing soft firmness

Lightly up or densely down?

Marshmallow or cheese?

And yet why not both?

Calmly swinging emotions

Cocoa harmony

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Joshua Fahey 

Bat Outta Hell

A forked tongue swifted slifted 

Tasted cheese in the air it lifted

Found a mouse in his domain drifted

And slithered near

The mouse gaily nibbled, nuzzled

Heard a noise and glanced up, puzzled 

Carefully searched with hunger muzzled 

To growing fear

Seen were scales, heard was hissing

Yet the rodent’s prayer weren’t missing

‘Save me, Lord, for death is kissing!

And wanders here.’

Angels bells unheard, resounded

Into the mouse’s body pounded

Wings unfurled, new species founded

Thus bats appear

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Joshua Fahey 

Heavenly Dreams

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Joshua Fahey 

Honey Hunt

Flowers painted and remembered

Nectar tasted, dust encumbered

Through the blades of grass in the garden

Bringing back the liquid gold for them

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Joshua Fahey 

The Dead Burying the Dead

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Joshua Fahey 

Pure Heart

Kept whole, clean, alight

Calm and peaceful through the night

Safe and joyful in your sight

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Joshua Fahey 

Sacred Heart

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Joshua Fahey