Chicken Marionettes come alive

~random scribbles of sulaiman zafir~

Hello cheery chums! I get excited just telling you about this. You won’t imagine what it was like for me  when we ran into Pogee the chicken marionette maker. Abah and Ummy have always known my love for marionettes of any kind, especially the kinds that can do miraculous and ridiculous crazy dance moves . Pogee showed me how to animate the fluffy colorful creature ~ chicken feeding and chicken potty-ing acts. I really thought it was funny. I can’t stop laughing. Abah got me a pair, one big and another small.  Pogee told us that he has just finished creating the marionettes Abah chose to purchase the night before . He usually worked till the wee hours to create his marionette masterpieces. I thought Pogee has an interesting job and of course, one that requires an extraordinary skill and creativity to match. We got home right after and I continued to play at the hotel room till late that night.  By then, Pogee was probably in his own room, somewhere within the densely 12 million populated Metro Manila, creating more marionettes to excite kids like me.

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