Empty nest syndrome, plus lapsed romances revisited...

courtesy Matthew Scott Harris
sentimental memorialized mental archive

No matter mine eldest daughter

(born December 22nd, 1996)

starred circa within storied
Matthew Scott Harris family
rendition of Breaking Home Ties.

Now interspersed with
following recherché trivia:
originally titled film made
during 1922 courtesy Sigmund Lubin,

and among “Pop” Lubin’s
Silent Film Empire

produced over 3,000 silent movies
spanning the two decades
of his film career

commencing with 1896
short film Horse Eating Hay

concluding with 1916’s
The Light at Dusk,
the final Lubin Manufacturing Company release,
his studio’s repertoire
ranged from educational films,
dramas, and disaster movies
to mysteries, comedies, and epic war films.

She "star student,"
who elected advanced placement classes
while diligent student at Harriton High School

graduated summa cum laude circa June 2015,

and matriculated at University of Pennsylvania

autumn of aforementioned year occupying

coed dormitory King's Court
English College House,

located at 3465 Sansom Street,

incidentally the first college house
to host a residential program.

Like Hill House,
said facility a freshmen-only house and
includes a dining hall on ground floor.

Our beloved progeny,

an 2019 minted alumna
relatively freshly minted
bachelor degree fortified
biomedical engineering graduate

confident, exhibits fierce political
(i.e. progressive liberal democratic opinions)

harbors piers sing quay zee

wharf fore did conscientious papasan go?

His fatherly duties
(he ably, eagerly and readily admits)

shirked, squandered, subsumed...

with marital infidelities
whereby precious energy and time,
(compromising spouse and offspring)

constituted posting and answering

(ofttimes linkedin private risque conversations

so that no family member could eavesdrop)

barring excellent outlook to access

locked bedroom door prurient exchanges

within which sexual flirtations,

(i.e. oral intercourse) occurred.

Understandable resentment bubbled forth

regarding promiscuous, salacious, vexatious...

in apropos overtures, plus covert canoodling

insync with chronic penury,
neither parent earned an income,

thus condemning two girls

living with refrain
dirty deeds done dirt poor

overshadowed by threat

that Children and Youth Services (CYS),

would swoop down and
snatch away our darling lasses.

No reconciliation forthcoming

between "Atalanta," predicated

upon her passion to run free and clear

and yours truly, who repents

atrocious, devious, hellacious... muckraking

whereby daddy's once upon a time

adorable angel, who easily

wrapped around her little finger

brings tears to mine eyes.

Twas only thru gentle prodding
"big sister" convinced youngest

to hightail to Bend, Oregon

under drafted legal guardianship
of me mine younger sibling
willingly and lovingly accepted role.