The Mistake That Swept His Books off Belfast Bookshelves

Wasn't this guy once one of the most-read authors in all the land?

Now Stephen King claims he is the most-banned writer from sand to sand.

No fewer than 87 of his titles have been removed from shelves nationwide—

That's a lot of books to be swept out by the tide.

The author of Bag of Bones and The Shining has been mostly banned for the content of his books;

That's why he has received most of the disapproving looks.

But now there's the case of his books being banned from Belfast Books stores—

You just won't find them if you enter that establishment's doors.

King wrongly suggested Charlie Kirk “advocated stoning gays to death,”

An untruthful thing to say about a man who just drew his last breath.

King’s was a mistake to apologize for—and he did,

But you can certainly imagine how Kirk supporters flipped a lid.

Kirk did once quote from the Bible, where it speaks of two men laying:

“...thou shall lay with another man shall be stoned to death, just saying.”

So, by and large, the banning of King's books is because their content doesn't meet with approval—

But now there's the case of Belfast Books: a small but noteworthy case of book removal.