Thales of Miletus said "See,
in origin all's watery;
Hesiod's cosmogony
is baseless mythology
Fuck that shit, I give you philosophy."
His student Anaximander
said come now, the goose and the gander
know all things are boundless,
are ground from the groundless,
an abstracted limitless tankard.
Anaximenes also may seem
a monist, his arche like steam:
it wakes - evanesces
it sleeps - coalesces
Air, Water, Earth, Fire its dreams.
fallensparks' History of Philosophy in Limericks #001
with thanks to Aerobe for clarifying Greek pronunciation