This poet can and has slept through both construction and hundred year old tree removal within a half block of her van home in past.

It’s not sound volume which wakes her, but sound weaponization.

Psychotic targeters who practice this technique develop a language of sounds designed to create specific effects in the minds and feelings of their recipients.

Once these languages of trauma are established, victims will hear those specific noises even at very low volumes, and even amid other, louder sounds.

In five long years of twenty-four hour daily torment, the Nazi kingpin who has followed this poet over tens of thousands of miles (staying just ahead of her to make her an unwilling and horrified viewer of some of the most spectacular of his now hundreds of depredations) has had time to cultivate a good dozen of these cue noises, and it is they he loads into his transceivers for her sound torture both waking and sleeping.

Once you have been maliciously awakened ~ even once but especially, and even more so, if it happens over and over in just a few hours ~ you are enraged.

You are bewildered and heartbroken. You are uncoordinated both physically and mentally. You are trying not to cry.

The three hours’ sleep you are allowed on average nights, experienced in such a state of disruption, does you little actual good.

But don’t be crying aloud when you have to expose yourself publicly, without any barrier at all between you and the humiliations you will be receiving from total strangers who visibly rush to your side for this purpose.

They put you away for that.

Welcome to the life of an American master poet.