It wouldn't be fair to say I saw nothing.
I saw endless miles of fallow fields.
I followed the Elkhorn and crossed
The Platte, that wide and shallow,
Storied river, twice.  I passed silos,
And windbreaks, and old farmers'
Houses, and palaces put up by
Entrepreneurs.  I went through
A small town that's turning quite
Precious.  Mostly, though, yes,
I drove through the tabletop
Emptiness anyone else would call
Nothing.  That's what I had wanted
To see.