Walter Mosley goes beyond Easy Rawlins with Socrates Fortlow an ex-offender, almost streetperson trying to make it in Watts. You can see and feel the anger of Socrates when people sometimes carelessly, sometimes callously disregard and disrespect him because he's old, poor, Black and sometimes just a little crazy. This series of stories made me rethink my own responses to the so called streetpeople I've worked with in a professional capacity with care and understanding of their feelings but calculatingly avoided otherwise. Socrates had his own moral code, his own sense of justice and though he didn't see himself as such, he was a good man.