As Custom Is - edit

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As Custom Is


I met another man
at my mailbox complex
and we both gestured
mumbling “Go ahead” as custom is.

After slight delay...

as we got our mail
in one order or the other
we said “Thanks” and “No prob”
and “Have a good one”
he addressing me as “brother”
and I him as “sir”
since we didn’t know each other’s names.

Then we went our ways
each self-satisfied
although he knew full well
that I was not his brother
and I had my doubts
he was a gentleman
and both of us had really
wanted to go first.

Basic crit for a basic poem, but comments on content welcome, too.

I also like C.'s idea for a different phrase desbribing a group mailbox.  P.O.'s official name is "cluster mailbox".  Although that brings up other clusters that maybe we don't want to echo in our mind.

I simply suggest a few cuts as well.  I don't think the "slight delay" works, it's like a stage direction in the middle of the poem.