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prowess

 (n): a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation
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25 days ago yarb said:

When even sex has ceased to be sensation
he calls his marriage
mutual consolation
and, lying with his wife
without prowess,
he calls the appalling sheets
a wilderness.

- Peter Reading, Nomenclator, from For the Municipality's Elderly, 1974

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