No goat on the moon

There once was a rationalist clot
Who claimed that this book had a plot
What did he expect?
A transparent text?
A referential discourse or what?

(Enough limerwrecks. Ed.) (Who's Ed? Antiplautus)

There once was no goat on the moon,
Who were never (tho' sometimes) quite soon,
He was strangled, they say,
And exploded one day,
Tha silly old beer named Baboon.