FC Seoul Steps in It

current events set to rhyme

Joe Váradi 🇭🇺
No Crime in Rhymin’
1 min readMay 27, 2020

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Baseball without fans is like a bird without a beak …

A soccer club in Seoul made the news last week
With the first games to break the Covid dry streak
Rows of empty bleachers seemed too sad, too bleak
A substitute for flesh-and-blood fans did they seek
And deployed mannequins of a certain physique
Which the ire of the morality police did pique
Wasn’t long before photos began to leak
Of blatant sexism did this menagerie reek

The club’s PR rep did finally speak:
“They aren’t sex dolls! They’re just unique!”
And in the end, to quell the swelling critique,
They reluctantly pulled Annabelle and Angelique …

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Joe Váradi 🇭🇺
No Crime in Rhymin’

Editor of No Crime in Rhymin' | Award-Winning Translator | ..."come for the sarcasm, stay for my soft side"