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In fact you can just line five of the Z shapes up along the bottom, over and over again. This technique works indefinitely.

Now, if there's an occasional S shape thrown into the mix, you have a problem.



As additional clarification if you align the piece upward to look like this then you're fine:

   #
  ##
  #
You'll end up with

   # # # # #
  ##########
  # # # # # 
which becomes

   # # # # #
  # # # # # 
which you can just repeat over and over again forever (if your variant of Tetris includes gravity even this collapse to nothing).




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