“It’s Up, Up”

It's up, up
I skate across, feel skittish
"there are limits to what I can put up with"
keep it here
study, assuage,
hold, slips
a slippage
automatic, recurrent
grows typical, unwordly:
"voice, accent, manner, face, mind"
look, sound, purpose.
We insist formally on several elements.
Truth, false starts, fresh starts
"slow speed & heavy reason"
to my lot,
fell/