Writer's Almanac: Leaving Kansas City (Colorado is the place!)

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/programs/2008/02/18/index.html

The poem ends with this:
"There is a place called Colorado where you will,
Of course, be very glad to arrive, where the others
Wanted to go; and you will sit smug in the shade
High up on a mountain, feeling the wind
Send shivers over your body, looking back
At the great sickening swoop of the plain
And think it part of a grand design:
Satisfying, necessary, even beautiful. "