And pampered, swells with one blood made of two, And this, alas, is more than we would do. Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare, Where we almost, yea, more than married are.

Mark but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deny'st me is; It sucked me first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea, our two bloods mingled be; Thou knowest that this cannot ...

This poem deals with a relationship that seems to have reached a crossroads. Lochhead uses a depiction of a day at a flea market to reveal the problems in the relationship. The poem also ...