John, actually that Edwin Morgan poem starts with s not with Z. (Boldfacing mine.)
At least it is so given in the collection "Short and Sweet: 101 Very Short Poems" edited by Simon Armitage.
I hope you will agree with me that this typo alters the entire way the poem is interpreted, whether the snake is really snoring (horkolás)
or is afflicted with a personality disorder személyiséqzavar. The Uralic languages (Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian being the main ones) are never easy.
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