Mish at dVerse has invited us to write a quadrille (44 words) using the word drum. dVerse Poets

“You can’t make a mistake when you improvise.” Patti Smith
The Many One The steady predictable rhythm, rat, tat, tat, tat, of that single snare drum unleashed our arhythmical froward, we went into the street, with pans, tins and bins and we beat a revolution, ba-dum, dum, tat, boom, one tune, many beats the difference of one. ©Paul Vincent Cannon