Part trilobite, part lungfish,
it crawls about the basalt seas
of the Mare Tranquillitatis
subsisting on water it's able
to extract from picograms
of lunar frost via a special array
of gills (programmable nano-
whiskers really—part and parcel
of every synimal biokit, no matter
how rudimentary or cheapjack).
Apparently, however, either
an inexperienced Noachian
constructed the original proto-
type or the lifeware codons
were poorly written, because,
instead of saving its energy
for darkside maintenance,
every time the homeworld
rolls up like a blue bowl of
light, the moonfish attempts
to leap into the "air"
as if some sort of broken-
winged migratory fowl
seeking to rejoin its flock
in an overhead flyway,
only to flop back down again,
writhing about the regolith,
gaffed by its own internal
programming.
Perhaps, despite the presence
of fins and scales, this also
accounts for its proverbial
taste of moonhen.