Time Magazine (on 6/7) asks

Have we failed poetry by not bothering to read it? Or has poetry failed us, by not seducing us into reading it?

Or maybe Time meant to ask this:

Have we failed ourselves by not bothering to read poetry? Or have we failed by being seduced into not reading poetry?

Or maybe--
Has poetry failed to seduce us into bothering to fail? Or has bothering with seduction failed us?

What I want to know is this:

Have we bothered failure by not reading poetry to it? Or has failure seduced us into reading poetry by not bothering us?