A Catharsis - The Anecdote Remains Untold Poem by Gayathri Seetharam

A Catharsis - The anecdote remains untold
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
Pantoum (Poetry Foundation)
A Malaysian verse form adapted by French poets and occasionally imitated in English. It comprises a series of quatrains, with the second and fourth lines of each quatrain repeated as the first and third lines of the next. The second and fourth lines of the final stanza repeat the first and third lines of the first stanza.
Google says:
a Malay verse form, imitated in French and English, consisting of quotations with an abab rhyme scheme linked by repeated lines.
Please note: I combined both sets of rules as published in The New York Times magazine (May 5th,2019)which has a delightful poem by Allison Joseph.

I could tell you an anecdote
Based on a beautiful story
And this would abate the longing
I have for a bountiful soul;

Based on a beautiful story
God is either radium or ether or a scientific compound
And I have for the bountiful soul in me
Surely good things to come;

If God is either radium or ether or a scientific compound
The worst the wicked may expect is a chemical reaction
And surely the good things to come for me
Would be fame and fortune;

If the worst the wicked may expect may be a chemical reaction
I would not have my misgivings about bad things coming my way
And surely the good things to come for me
Would be the making of serotonin in me and not facing insurmountable obstacles in making my fame and fortune;

The anecdote remains untold and I repeat
I could tell you an anecdote
And this could be a story you could tell yourself
And this did abate the longing I have for a bountiful soul.

Acknowledgements:
1. 100 Selected Stories by O. Henry
2. I know that this is not required by PoemHunter but my picture is from Smithsonian.org