diff --git a/tests/subprocess_test.py b/tests/subprocess_test.py
index 7fbcf0b..2760eac 100644
--- a/tests/subprocess_test.py
+++ b/tests/subprocess_test.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import eventlet
 from eventlet.green import subprocess
 import eventlet.patcher
-from nose.plugins.skip import SkipTest
 import sys
 import time
 original_subprocess = eventlet.patcher.original('subprocess')
@@ -29,14 +28,15 @@ def test_subprocess_wait():
 
 
 def test_communicate_with_poll():
+    # This test was being skipped since git 25812fca8, I don't there's
+    # a need to do this. The original comment:
+    #
     # https://github.com/eventlet/eventlet/pull/24
     # `eventlet.green.subprocess.Popen.communicate()` was broken
     # in Python 2.7 because the usage of the `select` module was moved from
     # `_communicate` into two other methods `_communicate_with_select`
     # and `_communicate_with_poll`. Link to 2.7's implementation:
     # http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2145593d108d/Lib/subprocess.py#l1255
-    if getattr(original_subprocess.Popen, '_communicate_with_poll', None) is None:
-        raise SkipTest('original subprocess.Popen does not have _communicate_with_poll')
 
     p = subprocess.Popen(
         [sys.executable, '-c', 'import time; time.sleep(0.5)'],