The document discusses the negative effects of stretching things too far beyond their limits. It uses a series of "if-then" statements to describe how stretching various entities, such as balloons, oceans, deserts, bodies, artists, rainbows, soldiers, cows, clocks, lions, trees, nights, nightingales, candles, castles, mangoes, faces, and consciences would cause them to burst, drown, scorch, disintegrate, surrender creativity, distort, collapse, ooze blood, cease functioning, vomit prey, diffuse rottenness, waft misery, culminate in cacophony, melt, transform into boredom, excoriate, dissolve into prejudice, and make way