Life & Wisdom Quote by Bradley Chicho

"Plunderous is the palate I gift to you" lands like an ornate toast with a knife hidden in the garnish. Chicho chooses a word that should be criminal - plunderous - and pins it to the mouth, the place where pleasure and appetite meet. A "palate" is taste, yes, but also judgment, discernment, the ability to take in a world and decide what’s delicious. Gifting someone a plunderous palate is intimacy framed as permission: I’m giving you access to my hungers, my acquisitive way of tasting life. It’s generosity that admits its own greed.

Then the line opens its arms: "openly I hug the universe of our friendship". The adverb matters. "Openly" signals a corrective to secrecy or restraint, as if this friendship has lived in the shadow of social rules, reputation, or self-protection. The hug isn’t just affection; it’s a public claim. Calling friendship a "universe" elevates it beyond the polite category and into something totalizing - a shared cosmos with its own gravity.

"Expanding its outer limit" is where the romance of infinity gets interestingly bureaucratic. A universe shouldn’t have an outer limit, yet Chicho insists on one, then insists it can be pushed. The subtext: closeness has borders - history, betrayal, time, unequal desire - but poetry can renegotiate them. The intent feels like a deliberate escalation: to take a relationship that might have been manageable and make it dangerously large, with appetite as the engine.