One should note that the s, as Janice has it, is lowercased and that the uppercased letters come in the middle. Since a siesta follows lunch, the snake has probably fallen asleep after a big meal (which is the whole joke: the z's of sleep blended with the fricatives of Hungarian); the capital letters indicate a bulging stomach, perhaps.
No English-language poet wrote better concrete poems than Morgan. They are extremely layered and intelligent. I have just acquired Starryveldt, a limited-run booklet of some of his experimental poems of the early 60s. I cannot get over this one, which cannot be found in the Collected:
Original Sin at the Water-Hole
asp
aspon
aspontaneousobstreperousos
tentatiousstentorianosmos
isofhys
tericallysnortingpossesofs
portingshehippopotamusses
pottingalittlefloatin
pottingalittlefloating
pottingalittlefloatingasp!
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