Oversights

It must be tough to edit, Searching calmly for mistakes, Whether spelling or grammatical, That every author makes. Still, it bothers me when reading And some errors have slipped by, Causing me to wonder, how much Did this edit-person try? First an idiom I noticed – “Chock it up” instead of “chalk.” Just to clarify, I Googled; I was justified to balk. Next, a character is asked, At someone’s house, to shed his shoes. Yet, upon a piano’s pedals, Those same sneakers he does use. You might think it’s nits I’m picking But such errors hit a nerve For the oversights of editors We readers don’t deserve.