I almost picked up,
but hesitated—
this being the digital age.
It was Laura Bush,
wife of the President,
no less!
Calling me—
as a "private call."
Has politics become so intimate—
that I thought it might be my husband!
Has politics become so intimate—
that I thought it might be my children or dearest friend!
That I thought and thought with guilt,
knowing, on a level that suspicion has recently bred,
that I dare not pick up until a voice starts to speak?
I like the woman.
I disagree with her husband.
Yet—
what constitutes privacy?