diff --git a/tools/iperl b/tools/iperl
index d4198b2..a3f5648 100755
--- a/tools/iperl
+++ b/tools/iperl
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 use Data::Dumper qw(Dumper);
 use File::Basename qw();
 use Getopt::Long qw();
-use Perl6::Slurp qw(slurp);
 use Scalar::Util qw();
 
 # NOTE: some Term::ReadLine implementations don't support features that we sort
@@ -302,7 +301,9 @@ sub run {
             die "failed to eval '$pair->[1]': $@" if $@;
         } elsif($pair->[0] eq 'run') {
             die "no path named $pair->[1] found" unless -e $pair->[1];
-            my $data = slurp($pair->[1]);
+            open(FH, $pair->[1]);
+            my $data = join("", <FH>);
+            close(FH);
             $PKG = eval "$data; return __PACKAGE__";
             die "failed to run $pair->[1]: $@" if $@;
         } elsif($pair->[0] eq 'use') {