Languages can be lost
You embrace one
Know its possessive pronouns, its past and present tense, its words that bite
How to transform adjectives into adverbs
How to speak letters into silence
How to make letters linger by alliterating them with the next
Its country of origin and colonial stops
Its party talk, its newspaper talk, its dirty and legal talk
You can write with it, travel in it, get drunk throughout it, laugh like it
Then find that it lives no further than the tip of your tongue