Richard Brauitgan

[busker]

I read all of his work I could find in paperback form in the... Seventies, I guess, maybe late Sixties.  "The Revenge of the Lawn," "Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork," "A Confederate General from Big Sur" ... he had, not just a way with words, but a dab hand with titles 

Duke, you might be old enough to remember the fateful day when a large meteorite impacted off the Yucatàn coast, causing the rise of small furry creatures.