diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 44b474e6..e69de29b 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "poly_submodule"]
-	path = poly_submodule
-	url = https://github.com/cventastic/poly_submodule.git
diff --git a/poly_submodule b/poly_submodule
deleted file mode 160000
index ee71a75f..00000000
--- a/poly_submodule
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit ee71a75faa91715e4f2112a8706aea65f7638856