Joe Cohen is of Syrian-Jewish parentage. He lives in Great Neck, New York and has been a New Yorker for all of his eighty-eight years. In seventh grade, he was commended by his English teacher for a composition he wrote. Sixty-four years later, after he retired from business, he started to take poetry courses, discovering the music and rhythm of words. These poems were written from 1993 to 2004 and reflect what he saw, what he did, and what he thinks.