In a marriage, couples develop a private language that becomes the most intimate form of communication they ever experience. But the language is very fragile. If you lose one speaker, you lose the language. When writing the poem, Gioia had in mind the languages of California Native American tribes that only have one or two remaining speakers left. When these speakers die, the entire language will be lost with them. In a similar way, Gioia says, a marriage is like a tribe of two people with a shared language only they speak.
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