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Peter has said "Mercy Street" was inspired by a poem by Anne Sexton. Does anyone know which one? The two I found containing the word "mercy" do not seem germane.

We are two who are wondering. Maby he´ll have to answer himself. By the way. It´s one of the songs I like the most, all artists included.

Peter could perhaps have written Mercy Street not only inspiring himself to a poem of Anne Sexton, but to the life of Anne Sexton. This is what I think me

hello, with this link you will found some informations, it is a work called 45 mercy street wich have been published after her death. http://plagiarist.com/poetry/546/comments/

please add to the url : /poetry/546/ for direct access to the poem or use the search engine. you can also use this one : "http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/45-mercy-street/"

Father, this year's jinx rides us apart....where you followed our mother to her cold slumber; a second shock boiling its stone to your heart, leaving me here to shuffle and disencumber you from the residence you could not afford: a gold key, your half of a woolen mill, twenty suits from Dunne's, an English Ford, the love and legal verbiage of another will, boxes of pictures of people I do not know. I touch their cardboard faces. They must go.

Yes, i heard it was also a play she wrote called mercy street about cild abuse and this poem, which i read for the first time in a 400+ page pdf about genesis