diff --git a/keystoneclient/session.py b/keystoneclient/session.py
index 32c30b7f8..61f12ea43 100644
--- a/keystoneclient/session.py
+++ b/keystoneclient/session.py
@@ -28,6 +28,22 @@ def request(url, method='GET', **kwargs):
     return Session().request(url, method=method, **kwargs)
 
 
+class _FakeRequestSession(object):
+    """This object is a temporary hack that should be removed later.
+
+    Keystoneclient has a cyclical dependency with its managers which is
+    preventing it from being cleaned up correctly. This is always bad but when
+    we switched to doing connection pooling this object wasn't getting cleaned
+    either and so we had left over TCP connections hanging around.
+
+    Until we can fix the client cleanup we rollback the use of a requests
+    session and do individual connections like we used to.
+    """
+
+    def request(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        return requests.request(*args, **kwargs)
+
+
 class Session(object):
 
     user_agent = None
@@ -75,7 +91,7 @@ class Session(object):
                                   for forever/never. (optional, default to 30)
         """
         if not session:
-            session = requests.Session()
+            session = _FakeRequestSession()
 
         self.auth = auth
         self.session = session
diff --git a/keystoneclient/tests/test_https.py b/keystoneclient/tests/test_https.py
index 729f014b3..f9618be98 100644
--- a/keystoneclient/tests/test_https.py
+++ b/keystoneclient/tests/test_https.py
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ import mock
 import requests
 
 from keystoneclient import httpclient
-from keystoneclient import session
 from keystoneclient.tests import utils
 
 
@@ -50,7 +49,7 @@ class ClientTest(utils.TestCase):
         self.request_patcher.start()
         self.addCleanup(self.request_patcher.stop)
 
-    @mock.patch.object(session.requests.Session, 'request')
+    @mock.patch.object(requests, 'request')
     def test_get(self, MOCK_REQUEST):
         MOCK_REQUEST.return_value = FAKE_RESPONSE
         cl = get_authed_client()
@@ -69,7 +68,7 @@ class ClientTest(utils.TestCase):
         # Automatic JSON parsing
         self.assertEqual(body, {"hi": "there"})
 
-    @mock.patch.object(session.requests.Session, 'request')
+    @mock.patch.object(requests, 'request')
     def test_post(self, MOCK_REQUEST):
         MOCK_REQUEST.return_value = FAKE_RESPONSE
         cl = get_authed_client()
@@ -86,7 +85,7 @@ class ClientTest(utils.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(mock_kwargs['cert'], ('cert.pem', 'key.pem'))
         self.assertEqual(mock_kwargs['verify'], 'ca.pem')
 
-    @mock.patch.object(session.requests.Session, 'request')
+    @mock.patch.object(requests, 'request')
     def test_post_auth(self, MOCK_REQUEST):
         MOCK_REQUEST.return_value = FAKE_RESPONSE
         cl = httpclient.HTTPClient(
diff --git a/keystoneclient/tests/test_shell.py b/keystoneclient/tests/test_shell.py
index 2bf5eb862..da9875f6f 100644
--- a/keystoneclient/tests/test_shell.py
+++ b/keystoneclient/tests/test_shell.py
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ class ShellTest(utils.TestCase):
             'endpoints': [],
         })
         request_mock = mock.MagicMock(return_value=response_mock)
-        with mock.patch.object(session.requests.Session, 'request',
+        with mock.patch.object(session.requests, 'request',
                                request_mock):
             shell(('--timeout 2 --os-token=blah  --os-endpoint=blah'
                    ' --os-auth-url=blah.com endpoint-list'))