Well I think #3 is definitely true in some senses of the word "real", but I am going for #2 as well :) This makes me so happy to read your response! Yay! I totally heard a song while I was first reading this poem, even before I made it to the bottom of the post where you said you also heard it as a song. I think you and I are both made up of some of the same raw stuff of imagination - we have already talked Lovecraft / weird horror, and sci-fi is another of my first loves. You rock and this was a ton of fun. I love Steem collaborations.

Much love - Carl