Double Jeopardy

The paths of folly and of wisdom meet
 once actuality is cast aside -
 without a well-formed history as guide
the motive causes cannot be discrete.
A psychiatric record may complete
 the judgments that profession needs decide
 this does not mean that this will coincide
with commonly held views of man on street.
  If public, private life both overlap
  a second jury judge with hammer tap
   and thus appears a novel Nemesis
   making actu’l, if not mental, crisis.
    Well, ‘such is life’, we have been heard to say,
    we don’t recall it any other way.