# "It's Javert! I'll hide in this Poetry Slam as P. White"

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**Created:** [March 23, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-javert-ill-hide-in-this-poetry-slam-as-p-white/295878 "2005-03-23T13:14:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-javert-ill-hide-in-this-poetry-slam-as-p-white/295878/1 "2005-03-23T13:14:28Z")

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Today in the Boston Globe they report on the capture of Norman A. Porter, who has been hiding in Chicago as a noted poet.

> **[Murderer's arrest ends fugitive life as Chicago poet](http://archive.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/03/23/murderers_arrest_ends_fugitive_life_as_chicago_poet/)**
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> In Chicago, he is one of the city's most beloved antiwar poets, an author of two books and a congregation leader at a West Side church. But in Massachusetts, he is notorious for executing a clerk at a Saugus clothing store in 1960, aiding in the...

This doesn’t exactly seem to be the way to keep a low profile.

What’s worse, the name he’s been hiding under is “J.J.Jameson”. If I were giving advice on how to duck the law, I’d suggest not using the name of Spiderman’s editor as your cover.  
Of course, I’d be wrong. This has apparently been fooling them for twenty years.

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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-javert-ill-hide-in-this-poetry-slam-as-p-white/295878/2 "2005-03-23T13:44:53Z")

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It’s the perfect cover. When was the last time “famous” and “poet” were used in the same sentence?

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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-javert-ill-hide-in-this-poetry-slam-as-p-white/295878/3 "2005-03-23T13:56:17Z")

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> [@Otto](#):
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> It’s the perfect cover. When was the last time “famous” and “poet” were used in the same sentence?

A few years after the “entertaining” and “poet” sentence.