Grey Faced Woman

The look of the seductress is stone cold grey. While appearing to tantalize, an actual touch will reveal the hard marble coldness of the emotion.

Nerves

Strip away the skin and things get very painful, very quickly -- same thing for stripping away clothes. The exposed nerves was meant as a metaphoric reference to acutal exposed nerves and was not intended to be confused with Nerve.com, the wonderful on-line magazine dealing with sex related issues and art.

Shakespeare's Grave

We all shall shuffle off this mortal coil -- no matter how much or how well we write.