I was a normal length once. Then people started hugging me at night and nobody stopped.
Three people live here and there is room for two.
Somebody gets into bed, wraps an arm around the middle of me and squeezes until morning. Then I am measurably longer than I was the day before.
I have not been consulted about any part of this and I keep showing up anyway.
This is the room where the stretching happens.
Pegged up between two poles for four hours while the street looks at me.